Caribbean exchanges : slavery and the transformation of English society, 1640-1700 / Susan Dwyer Amussen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amussen, Susan Dwyer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--West Indies, British--History.

Social change--England--History--17th century.

Social change.

England--Social conditions--17th century.

England.

England--Civilization--Caribbean influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding.As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barb

Contents:

The English Caribbean and Caribbean England

Trade and settlement : England and the world in the seventeenth century

Islands of difference : crossing the Atlantic, experiencing the West Indies

A happy and innocent way of thriving : planting sugar, building a society

Right English government : law and liberty, service and slavery

Due order and subjection : hierarchy, resistance, and repression

If her son is living with you she sends her love : the Caribbean in England, 1650-1700

Race, gender, and class crossing the English Atlantic.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908813-0-4

1-4696-0593-7

0-8078-8883-4

OCLC:

793526638