Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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HeinOnline slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law |
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HeinOnline UNC Press law publications |
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HeinOnline. Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law
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HeinOnline. UNC Press law publications
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Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016) |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Slavery -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
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Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History
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Social change -- England -- History -- 17th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Civilization -- Caribbean influences
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Slavery
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Slavery -- British colonies
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Social change
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Social conditions
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Sklaverei
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Slavernij.
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Kolonisatie.
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Sociale verhoudingen.
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Sociale ontwikkeling.
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SUBJECT |
England -- Social conditions -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043314
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England -- Civilization -- Caribbean influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007001597
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England
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West Indies -- British West Indies
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Westindien
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Großbritannien
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Engeland.
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Caribisch gebied.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
2007008869 |
ISBN |
9780807888834 |
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0807888834 |
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9781469605937 |
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1469605937 |
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