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Working slavery, pricing freedom : perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa, and the African diaspora / edited by Verene A. Shepherd.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Kingston [Jamica] : Ian Randle Publishers ; Oxford [U.K.] : James Currey Publishers, 2002.Description: xxii, 538 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9768123591
  • 9789768123596
  • 0852554656
  • 9780852554654
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Working slavery, pricing freedom.; Working slavery, pricing freedom.DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62/09729 21
LOC classification:
  • HT1105.C37 W67 2002b
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • 15.80
  • NW 8295
Contents:
1. 'The wickedest city in the world': Port Royal, commercial hub of the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Nuala Zahedieh -- 2. Slavery and cotton culture in the Bahamas / Gail Saunders -- 3. Loyalists mainly to themselves: the 'Black Loyalist' diaspora to the Bahamas, 1783-c. 1820 / Michael Craton -- 4. Lineage slavery at New Calabar, Eastern Niger Delta, 1850-1950: a reassessment / Waibinte Wariboko -- 5. Innovations in sugar-cane mill technology in Jamaica, 1760-1830 / Veront Satchell -- 6. Planting and processing techniques on Jamaican coffee plantations during slavery / Kathleen E. A. Monteith -- 7. 'A matron in rank, a prostitute in manners': the Manning divorce of 1741 and class, gender, race and the law in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Trevor Burnard -- 8. Land, labour and social status: non-sugar producers in Jamaica in slavery and freedom / Verene A. Shepherd -- 9. Resistance and rebellion of African captives in the transatlantic slave trade before becoming seasoned labourers in the British Caribbean, 1690-1807 / Richard Sheridan -- 10. 'Deportees in Nova Scotia': the Jamaican Maroons, 1796-1800 / Allister Hinds -- 11. 'War dances': slave leisure and anti-slavery in the British-colonised Caribbean / Hilary McD. Beckles -- 12. 'The 11 o' clock flog': women, work and labour law in the British Caribbean / Mary Turner -- 13. Pricing freedom: evaluating the costs of emancipation and of manumission / Stanley Engerman -- 14. Black and White: slaves, slavery and British society, 1600-1807 / Jim Walvin -- 15. 'The hundredth year of our emancipation': the dialectices of resistance in slavery and freedom / O. Nigel Bolland -- 16. The 'Other Middle Passage?' nineteenth-century bonded labourmigration and the legacy of the slavery debate in the British-colonised Caribbean / Verene Shepherd -- 17. Ethnicity and economic behaviour in nineteenth-century Guyana / Brian L. Moore -- 18. 'Young woman from the country': a profile of domestic servants in Jamaica, 1920-1970 / Michele Johnson -- 19. 'Restrictions and freedoms for women in northern Cameroons to 1961: an examination of the liberating influences' / Richard Goodridge -- 20. Politics at the 'grassroots' in free Jamaica: St. James 1838-1865 / Swithin Wilmot -- 21. 'A brave and loyal people': the role of the Maroons in the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865 / Joy Lumsden -- 22. Dominican plantations and land tenure in the Dominican Republic, 1900-1916 / Patrick Bryan -- 23. Race, labour and politics in Jamaica and St. Kitts, 1909-1940: A comparative survey of the roles of the National Club of Jamaica and the Workers League of St. Kitts / Glen Richards.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 'The wickedest city in the world': Port Royal, commercial hub of the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Nuala Zahedieh -- 2. Slavery and cotton culture in the Bahamas / Gail Saunders -- 3. Loyalists mainly to themselves: the 'Black Loyalist' diaspora to the Bahamas, 1783-c. 1820 / Michael Craton -- 4. Lineage slavery at New Calabar, Eastern Niger Delta, 1850-1950: a reassessment / Waibinte Wariboko -- 5. Innovations in sugar-cane mill technology in Jamaica, 1760-1830 / Veront Satchell -- 6. Planting and processing techniques on Jamaican coffee plantations during slavery / Kathleen E. A. Monteith -- 7. 'A matron in rank, a prostitute in manners': the Manning divorce of 1741 and class, gender, race and the law in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Trevor Burnard -- 8. Land, labour and social status: non-sugar producers in Jamaica in slavery and freedom / Verene A. Shepherd -- 9. Resistance and rebellion of African captives in the transatlantic slave trade before becoming seasoned labourers in the British Caribbean, 1690-1807 / Richard Sheridan -- 10. 'Deportees in Nova Scotia': the Jamaican Maroons, 1796-1800 / Allister Hinds -- 11. 'War dances': slave leisure and anti-slavery in the British-colonised Caribbean / Hilary McD. Beckles -- 12. 'The 11 o' clock flog': women, work and labour law in the British Caribbean / Mary Turner -- 13. Pricing freedom: evaluating the costs of emancipation and of manumission / Stanley Engerman -- 14. Black and White: slaves, slavery and British society, 1600-1807 / Jim Walvin -- 15. 'The hundredth year of our emancipation': the dialectices of resistance in slavery and freedom / O. Nigel Bolland -- 16. The 'Other Middle Passage?' nineteenth-century bonded labourmigration and the legacy of the slavery debate in the British-colonised Caribbean / Verene Shepherd -- 17. Ethnicity and economic behaviour in nineteenth-century Guyana / Brian L. Moore -- 18. 'Young woman from the country': a profile of domestic servants in Jamaica, 1920-1970 / Michele Johnson -- 19. 'Restrictions and freedoms for women in northern Cameroons to 1961: an examination of the liberating influences' / Richard Goodridge -- 20. Politics at the 'grassroots' in free Jamaica: St. James 1838-1865 / Swithin Wilmot -- 21. 'A brave and loyal people': the role of the Maroons in the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865 / Joy Lumsden -- 22. Dominican plantations and land tenure in the Dominican Republic, 1900-1916 / Patrick Bryan -- 23. Race, labour and politics in Jamaica and St. Kitts, 1909-1940: A comparative survey of the roles of the National Club of Jamaica and the Workers League of St. Kitts / Glen Richards.

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