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A Tale of Two Plantations Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica.. Richard Dunn SIGNED
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Signed by Author”
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica an ...
- Title
- A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica an ...
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Jamaica
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780674735361
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674735366
ISBN-13
9780674735361
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201560775
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tale of Two Plantations : Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
Number of Pages
552 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Modern / 19th Century, Agriculture / General, Historical, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-014075
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A remarkable achievement. By tracking the enslaved populations on Jamaica'e(tm)s Mesopotamia estate and Virginia'e(tm)s Mount Airy plantation in minute detail, Dunn explores major themes in the history of slavery through the experiences of particular people and their social networks. His meticulous research, considered analysis, and unparalleled authority on the subject have set a new benchmark for histories of Anglo-American slavery.
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
306.3/62097292
Synopsis
Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families., Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves , Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the individual lives and collective experiences of three generations of slaves on the Mesopotamia sugar estate in Jamaica and the Mount Airy plantation in tidewater Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery could take. Dunn's stunning achievement is a rich and compelling history of bondage in two very different Atlantic world settings. From the mid-eighteenth century to emancipation in 1834, life in Mesopotamia was shaped and stunted by deadly work regimens, rampant disease, and dependence on the slave trade for new laborers. At Mount Airy, where the population continually expanded until emancipation in 1865, the "surplus" slaves were sold or moved to distant work sites, and families were routinely broken up. Over two hundred of these Virginia slaves were sent eight hundred miles to the Cotton South. In the genealogies that Dunn has painstakingly assembled, we can trace a Mesopotamia fieldhand through every stage of her bondage, and contrast her harsh treatment with the fortunes of her rebellious mulatto son and clever quadroon granddaughter. We track a Mount Airy craftworker through a stormy life of interracial sex, escape, and family breakup. The details of individuals' lives enable us to grasp the full experience of both slave communities as they labored and loved, and ultimately became free.
LC Classification Number
HT1099.M48D86 2014
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