Mastery, tyranny, and desire : Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world / Trevor Burnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnard, Trevor, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slaveholders--Jamaica--Biography.

Slaveholders.

Plantation owners--Jamaica--Biography.

Plantation owners.

Plantation life--Jamaica--History--18th century.

Plantation life.

Enslaved persons--Jamaica--Social conditions--18th century.

Enslaved persons.

Jamaica--Race relations.

Jamaica.

Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786.

Thistlewood, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Gray Zone: An Introduction to Thomas Thistlewood and His Diaries; 2 Mastery and Competency: Thistlewood Earns a Living; 3 Cowskin Heroes: Thistlewood, Slavery, and White Egalitarianism; 4 In the Scientific Manner: Thistlewood and the Practical Enlightenment in a Slavery Regime; 5 Weapons of the Strong and Responses of the Weak: Thistlewood's War with His Slaves; 6 Cooperation and Contestation, Intimacy and Distance: Thistlewood and His Male Slaves; 7 Adaptation, Accommodation, and Resistance: Thistlewood's Slave Women and Their Responses to Enslavement

8 The Life and Times of Thomas Thistlewood, Esquire-Gardener and Slave OwnerNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-312) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-174-1

979-88-908786-6-3

1-4696-0502-3

0-8078-9874-0

OCLC:

654435598