Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807

Informationen zum Autor Justin Roberts is an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he specializes in the study of slavery and the Atlantic World. He is the recipient of multiple fellowships, including awards from the Huntington Library, John D. Rockefeller Library, John Carter Brown Library, Virginia Historical Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Professor Roberts has published articles on slavery in the William and Mary Quarterly, Slavery and Abolition, and Historical Geography. He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Clock work: time, quantification, amelioration, and the Enlightenment; 2. Sunup to sundown: agricultural diversity and seasonal patterns of work; 3. Lockstep and line: gang work and the division of labor; 4. Negotiating sickness: health, work, and seasonality; 5. Labor and industry: skilled and unskilled work; 6. Working lives: occupations and families in the slave community; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Roberts, Justin (Dalhousie University Roberts, Roberts Justin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107025851
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02585-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; British Empire, Regional & national history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Atlantic Ocean, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Slavery & abolition of slavery, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery