A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

by Richard S. Dunn

Book Overview

Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the individual lives and collective experiences of three generations of slaves on the Mesopotamia sugar estate in Jamaica and the Mount Airy plantation in tidewater...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674735366
• ISBN13: 9780674735361
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"