Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807

Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
ISBN-10
1107025850
ISBN-13
9781107025851
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
367
Language
English
Published
2013-07-08
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Justin Roberts

Description

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.

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