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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Simon P., 1960-

Series:

The early modern Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave labor--Barbados--History.

Slave labor.

Contract labor--Barbados--History.

Contract labor.

Plantations--Barbados--History.

Plantations.

Slave labor--Ghana--History.

Contract labor--Ghana--History.

Contract labor--Great Britain--History.

Slave trade--Ghana--History.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Great Britain--History.

British--Barbados--History.

British.

British--Ghana--History.

Physical Description:

viii, 327 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1. ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Summary:

By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-319) and index.

Pt. I. SETTINGS: -- ch. 1. England -- ch. 2. The Gold Coast -- ch. 3. Barbados -- pt. II. BRITISH BOUND LABOR: -- ch. 4. "White Slaves": British labor in Early Barbados -- ch. 5. "A Company of White Negros" The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast -- pt. III. AFRICAN BOUND LABOR: -- ch. 6. "A Spirit of Liberty": Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts -- ch. 7. "We Have No Power over Them"; People and Work on the Gold Coast -- pt. IV. PLANTATION SLAVERY: -- ch. 8. "The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters": The Development of Racial Slavery and the Integrated Plantations of Barbados -- ch. 9. "Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength": Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations.

ISBN:

0812245199

9780812245196

9780812208313

0812208315

OCLC:

859378168