Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807

by Justin Roberts and Justin Roberts

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107680751
• ISBN13: 9781107680753
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"