ISBN:
9780807888834
,
0807888834
,
9781469605937
,
1469605937
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 302 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Burns, William E. [Rezension von: Amussen, Susan Dwyer, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700] 2009
Series Statement:
HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
Series Statement:
HeinOnline UNC Press law publications
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Amussen, Susan Dwyer Caribbean exchanges
DDC:
306.3620941
Keywords:
Slavery Colonies
;
History
;
Great Britain
;
Slavery History
;
West Indies, British
;
Social change History
;
17th century
;
England
;
Social change History 17th century
;
Slavery Colonies
;
History
;
Slavery History
;
HISTORY ; Europe ; Great Britain
;
Civilization ; Caribbean influences
;
Slavery
;
Slavery ; Colonies
;
Social change
;
Social conditions
;
Slavernij
;
Kolonisatie
;
Sociale verhoudingen
;
Sociale ontwikkeling
;
Sklaverei
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
;
History
;
England Social conditions
;
17th century
;
England Civilization
;
Caribbean influences
;
Engeland
;
Caribisch gebied
;
Westindien
;
Großbritannien
;
England Civilization
;
Caribbean influences
;
England Social conditions 17th century
;
England
;
Great Britain
;
Engeland
;
Caribisch gebied
;
West Indies ; British West Indies
;
Westindien
;
Großbritannien
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barb
Abstract:
The English Caribbean and Caribbean England --Trade and settlement : England and the world in the seventeenth century --Islands of difference : crossing the Atlantic, experiencing the West Indies --A happy and innocent way of thriving : planting sugar, building a society --Right English government : law and liberty, service and slavery --Due order and subjection : hierarchy, resistance, and repression --her son is living with you she sends her love : the Caribbean in England, 1650-1700 --Race, gender, and class crossing the English Atlantic.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-292) and index. - Description based on print version record
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