The First Black Slave Society Britain's Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636-1876 |
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| Author:
| Beckles, Hilary McD |
| ISBN: | 978-976-640-585-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of the West Indies Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century - the Portuguese and Spanish had commercialized chattel slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the 1500s - but in Barbados, the practice of slavery reached its apotheosis.
In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century - the Portuguese and Spanish had commercialized chattel slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the 1500s - but in Barbados, the practice of slavery reached its apotheosis.