Tale of Two Plantations - Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

Informationen zum Autor Richard S. Dunn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his publications are Sugar and Slaves in 1972; The Papers of William Penn , edited with Mary Maples Dunn, in four volumes published in 1981–1987; and The Journal of John Winthrop , edited with Laetitia Yeandle, published in 1996. He also designed the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and was its founding director. Klappentext Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families. Zusammenfassung Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia! to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.

Product details

• Authors: Richard S Dunn, Richard S. Dunn, Dunn Richard S.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2014
• EAN: 9780674735361
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73536-1
• No. of pages: 552
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, US South, Caribbean & West Indies