A Tale of Two Plantations

A Tale of Two Plantations
ISBN-10
0674735366
ISBN-13
9780674735361
Category
History
Pages
540
Language
English
Published
2014-11-04
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Richard S. Dunn

Description

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.

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