ISBN:
1107345537
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110734803X
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1107341787
,
1139198866
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9781107348035
,
9781107341784
,
9781139198868
,
9781107345539
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Roberts, Justin Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
DDC:
306.3/62094109033
Keywords:
Slavery History 18th century
;
Slaves Colonies 18th century
;
History
;
Enlightenment Colonies
;
Slavery Colonies 18th century
;
History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Slavery
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Slavery ; Colonies
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History
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Great Britain
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Atlantic Ocean Region
Abstract:
"This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement"--
Abstract:
Clock work : time, quantification, amelioration and the enlightenment --Sunup to sundown : agricultural diversity and seasonal patterns of work --Lockstep and line : gang work and the division of labor --Negotiating sickness : health, work and seasonality --Labor and industry : skilled and unskilled work --Working lives : occupations and families in the slave community.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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