Working slavery, pricing freedom : perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa and the African diaspora/
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| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave, 2002. |
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| Description: | xxii, 538 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4678162 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. Colonisation, Enslavement and Resistance
- Section 1. Slavery and economic life: commercial, agricultural and domestic regimes
- 1. 'The wickedest city in the world': Port Royal, commercial hub of the seventeenth-century Caribbean
- 2. Slavery and cotton culture in the Bahamas
- 3. Loyalists mainly to themselves: the 'Black Loyalist' diaspora to the Bahamas, 1783-c. 1820
- 4. Lineage slavery at New Calabar, Eastern Niger Delta, 1850-1950: a reassessment
- Section 2. Slavery and technology
- 5. Innovations in sugar-cane mill technology in Jamaica, 1760-1830
- 6. Planting and processing techniques on Jamaican coffee plantations during slavery
- Section 3. Race, class, gender and power in Caribbean slave systems
- 7. 'A matron in rank, a prostitute in manners': the Manning divorce of 1741 and class, gender, race and the law in eighteenth-century Jamaica
- 8. Land, labour and social status: non-sugar producers in Jamaica in slavery and freedom
- Section 4. Contesting slavery: causes and consequences
- 9. Resistance and rebellion of African captives in the transatlantic slave trade before becoming seasoned labourers in the British Caribbean, 1690-1807
- 10. 'Deportees in Nova Scotia': the Jamaican Maroons, 1796-1800
- 11. 'War dances': slave leisure and anti-slavery in the British-colonised Caribbean
- Part 2. Massa/Missus Day Done?
- Section 5. Pricing slavery, pricing freedom
- 12. 'The 11 o'clock flog': women, work and labour law in the British Caribbean
- 13. Pricing freedom: evaluating the costs of emancipation and of manumission
- 14. Black and White: slaves, slavery and British society, 1600-1807
- 15. 'The hundredth year of our emancipation': the dialectics of resistance in slavery and freedom
- Section 6. The legacy of slavery: gender, ethnicity and occupation
- 16. The 'Other Middle Passage?' nineteenth-century bonded labourmigration and the legacy of the slavery debate in the British-colonised Caribbean
- 17. Ethnicity and economic behaviour in nineteenth-century Guyana
- 18. 'Young woman from the country': a profile of domestic servants in Jamaica, 1920-1970
- 19. 'Restrictions and freedoms for women in northern Cameroons to 1961: an examination of the liberating influences'
- Section 7. The legacy of slavery: race, labour, politics and protest
- 20. Politics at the 'grassroots' in free Jamaica: St James 1838-1865
- 21. 'A brave and loyal people': the role of the Maroons in the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865
- 22. Dominican plantations and land tenure in the Dominican Republic, 1900-1916
- 23. Race, labour and politics in Jamaica and St Kitts, 1909-1940: A comparative survey of the roles of the National Club of Jamaica and the Workers League of St Kitts
- Contributors
- Index
