A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia /
Author / Creator: | Dunn, Richard S., author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 540 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11237688 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 540 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674735620 0674735625 9780674735361 0674735366 |