A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

by Simon P. Newman

Book Overview

The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the New World. By the early seventeenth century, more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812223624
• ISBN13: 9780812223620
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"