TY - BOOK AU - Beckles, Hilary, TI - The first black slave society: Britain's "barbarity time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 SN - 9789766405854 AV - HT1105.B3 B335 2016 U1 - 972.981 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Kingston, Jamaica PB - The University of the West Indies Press KW - Slavery KW - Barbados KW - History KW - Barbadians KW - Imperialism KW - history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-284) and index; Part 1. Creating the black slave society -- Part 2. "A well constituted society" -- Part 3. The end of delusion -- Part 4. Ending the "barbarity time." N2 - Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance ER -