Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
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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.
Title |
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 / Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. |
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Additional Titles |
Slavery & the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Publisher |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
Creation Date |
2013 |
Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
Clock work: time, quantification, amelioration and the enlightenment -- Sunup to sudown: 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. |
Extent |
1 online resource (xiv, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010700845805171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Slavery Colonies Great Britain History 18th century.
- Slavery Atlantic Ocean Region History 18th century.
- Slaves Colonies Great Britain History 18th century.
- Enlightenment Colonies Great Britain.
- nne Slaves
- Abolition of slavery
- Antislavery
- Enslavement
- Mui tsai
- Ownership of slaves
- Servitude
- Slave keeping
- Slave system
- Slaveholding
- Thralldom
- Aufklärung
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