Planters, Merchants, and Slaves - 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 Planters, Merchants, and Slaves write by Trevor Burnard. This book was released on 2019-02-22. Planters, Merchants, and Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because to speak bluntly it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North American colonies, but those in their booming and integrated commercial hub, Jamaica. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy."--
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 - 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 Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 write by . This book was released on 2017. Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830
Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 - 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 Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 write by Trevor Burnard. This book was released on 2019-12-12. Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 looks at the historical connections between four continents – Africa, Europe, North America and South America – through the lens of Atlantic history. It shows how the Atlantic has been more than just an ocean: it has been an important site of circulation and transmission, allowing exchanges and interchanges which have profoundly shaped the development of the world. Divided into four thematic sections, Trevor Burnard's sweeping yet concise narrative covers the period from the voyages of Columbus to the New World in the 1490s through to the end of the Age of Revolutions around 1830. It deals with key topics including the Columbian exchange, Atlantic slavery and abolition, war as a global phenomenon, the Age of Revolution, religious conversion, nation-building, trade and commerce and intellectual movements such as the Enlightenment. Rather than focusing on the 'rise of the West', Burnard stresses the interactive nature of encounters between various parts of the world, setting local case studies within his broader interconnected narrative. Written by a leading historian of Atlantic history, and including further reading lists, images and maps as well as a companion website featuring discussion questions, timelines and primary source extracts, this is an essential book for students of Atlantic and world history.
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World - 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 Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World write by Edward B. Rugemer. This book was released on 2018-11-12. Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrative sugar plantations and enslaved African labor, spawned the slave societies of Jamaica in the western Caribbean and South Carolina on the American mainland. These became the most prosperous slave economies in the Anglo-American Atlantic, despite the rise of enlightened ideas of liberty and human dignity. Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World reveals the political dynamic between slave resistance and slaveholders’ power that marked the evolution of these societies. Edward Rugemer shows how this struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other. In both Jamaica and South Carolina, a draconian system of laws and enforcement allowed slave masters to maintain control over the people they enslaved, despite resistance and recurrent slave revolts. Brutal punishments, patrols, imprisonment, and state-sponsored slave catchers formed an almost impenetrable net of power. Yet slave resistance persisted, aided and abetted by rising abolitionist sentiment and activity in the Anglo-American world. In South Carolina, slaveholders exploited newly formed levers of federal power to deflect calls for abolition and to expand slavery in the young republic. In Jamaica, by contrast, whites fought a losing political battle against Caribbean rebels and British abolitionists who acted through Parliament. Rugemer’s comparative history spanning two hundred years of slave law and political resistance illuminates the evolution and ultimate collapse of slave societies in the Atlantic World.
Freedom in White and Black
Freedom in White and Black - 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 Freedom in White and Black write by Emma Christopher. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Freedom in White and Black available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gripping true account of African slaves and white slavers whose fates are seemingly reversed, shedding fascinating light on the early development of the nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Australia, and on the role of former slaves in combatting the illegal trade.
