Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean

by Randy M Browne

Book Overview

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival

Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224639
• ISBN13: 9780812224634
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"