Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire write by Trevor Burnard. This book was released on 2009-11-17. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire write by Trevor Burnard. This book was released on 2004. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire write by Trevor Burnard. This book was released on 2004. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African
In Miserable Slavery
In Miserable Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Miserable Slavery write by Douglas Hall. This book was released on 1999. In Miserable Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786) was a British estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica. He arrived in Jamaica, the most important of the British sugar colonies in 1750, when he was 29 years old. He became the overseer or manager of the Egypt sugar plantation near the small port of Savanna la Mar. He stayed in Jamaica until his death in 1786. He wrote a diary, which eventually ran to some 10,000 pages, and this diary became an important historical document on slavery and history of Jamaica.
Children of Uncertain Fortune
Children of Uncertain Fortune - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children of Uncertain Fortune write by Daniel Livesay. This book was released on 2018-01-11. Children of Uncertain Fortune available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
