A New World of Labor The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic |
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| Author:
| Newman, Simon P. |
| Series title: | The Early Modern Americas Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-4519-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $89.95 |
Book Description:
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A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America.
A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America.