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Informationen zum Autor Simon P. Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow and author of Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic and Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext Simon P. Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow and author of Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic and Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I: SETTINGS Chapter 1. England Chapter 2. The Gold Coast Chapter 3. Barbados PART II: BRITISH BOUND LABOR Chapter 4. "White Slaves": British Labor in Early Barbados Chapter 5. "A Company of White Negroes": The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast PART III: AFRICAN BOUND LABOR Chapter 6. "A Spirit of Liberty": Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts Chapter 7. "We Have No Power over Them": People and Work on the Gold Coast PART IV: PLANTATION SLAVERY Chapter 8. "The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters": The Development of Racial Slavery and the Integrated Plantations of Barbados Chapter 9. "Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength": Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
