Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 |
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| Author:
| Roberts, Justin |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-02585-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $128.00 |
Book Description:
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This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations, and examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done.
This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations, and examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done.