A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia
Dunn, Richard S.2014
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Total copies: 1
Forty years ago, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the individual lives and collective experiences of three generations of slaves on the Mesopotamia sugar estate in Jamaica and the Mount Airy plantation in tidewater Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery could take. Dunn's stunning achievement is a rich and compelling history of bondage in two very different Atlantic world settings.
Main title:
A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia / Richard S. Dunn.
Author:
Dunn, Richard S., author
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Collation:
x, 540 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780674735361 (hbk)
Dewey class:
306.362097292
Local class:
HI.7/DUN
Language:
English
Subject:
Mesopotamia (Jamaica : Plantation)Mount Airy (Va. : Plantation)Plantation life -- Jamaica -- HistoryPlantation life -- Virginia -- HistoryEnslaved persons -- Jamaica -- Social conditionsEnslaved persons -- Virginia -- Social conditionsEnslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- JamaicaEnslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- Virginia
BRN:
1711804