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A new world of labor : the development of plantation slavery in the British Atlantic / Simon P. Newman.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960-
Contributor:
University of Pennsylvania. Press.
Series:
Early modern Americas
The early modern Americas
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
British--Ghana--History.
Contract labor--Barbados--History.
Plantations--Barbados--History.
Slave labor--Ghana--History.
Contract labor--Ghana--History.
Contract labor--Great Britain--History.
Slave trade--Ghana--History.
Slave trade--Great Britain--History.
Slave trade.
Slave labor.
History.
British.
Contract labor.
Plantations.
Great Britain.
British--Barbados--History.
Slave labor--Barbados--History.
Barbados.
Ghana.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 327 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
Penn Press e-books.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Contents:
Part I Settings
Chapter 1 England 17
Chapter 2 The Gold Coast 36
Chapter 3 Barbados 54
Part II British Bound Labor
Chapter 4 "White Slaves": British Labor in Early Barbados 71
Chapter 5 "A Company of White Negroes": The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast 108
Part III African Bound Labor
Chapter 6 "A Spirit of Liberty": Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts 139
Chapter 7 "We Have No Power over Them": People and Work on the Gold Coast 166
Part IV Plantation Slavery
Chapter 8 "The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters": The Development of Racial Slavery and the Integrated Plantations of Barbados 189
Chapter 9 "Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength": Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations 216.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and index.
Other Format:
Print version: Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960- New world of labor.
ISBN:
9780812208313
0812208315
OCLC:
859161692
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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