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British West Indian Slavery, 1750-1834
Author | : J. R. Ward |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The first account of Caribbean slavery to draw from the plantation records of several different sugar colonies, this book examines the attempts made by British West Indian planters to improve the treatment of their slaves, partly in response to the anti-slavery movement. Ward argues that although the measures taken did raise the standard of living and productive efficiency of plantation slaves, "amelioration" contained serious weaknesses that made it ultimately ineffective as a means of defending the institution of slavery. Though focused on the British West Indies, the book's main theme--the potential for reform and economic development in slave-based societies--will hold wider significance for a variety of economic and social historians.
Contrary Voices
Author | : Karina Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Highlights variations in representations of West Indian slavery by drawing on a range of testimonies, especially those of the enslaved themselves. This work focuses on representations based principally on first-hand experience or observation of slavery in the then British West Indies.
West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807
Author | : David Ryden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2009-01-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521486599 |
Ryden challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. His research illustrates that a faltering sugar economy after 1799 tipped the scales in favour of the abolitionist argument and helped secure the passage of abolition.
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Author | : B. W. Higman |
Publisher | : University of the West Indies Press |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789766400101 |
Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: Being a delineation of the state in point of law
Author | : James Stephen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1824 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
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The West India Question Practically Considered
Author | : Sir Robert Wilmot Horton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1826 |
Genre | : Slavery |
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Pamphlets on West Indian Slavery
Author | : Elizabeth Heyrick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108020305 |
Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831) and Alexander McDonnell (1794-1875) held opposing views on slavery in the British colonies at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Published in 1824 and 1827 respectively, these pamphlets remain key documents in the context of post-colonial debates.
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807
Author | : Justin Roberts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107025850 |
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.