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

Justin Roberts2013 ;ISBN: 1107680751 ;ISBN: 9781107025851 ;ISBN: 9781107680753 ;ISBN: 1107025850 ;EISBN: 1139198866 ;EISBN: 9781139198868 ;EISBN: 110734803X ;EISBN: 9781107348035 ;EISBN: 1107236436 ;EISBN: 9781107236431 ;EISBN: 9781107357655 ;EISBN: 1107357659 ;DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139198868 ;OCLC: 857650588

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  • Title:
    Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807
  • Author: Roberts, Justin
  • Subjects: Colonies ; Enlightenment ; Great Britain ; Slavery ; Slaves
  • Description: This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement.
  • Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 368
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 1107680751
    ISBN: 9781107025851
    ISBN: 9781107680753
    ISBN: 1107025850
    EISBN: 1139198866
    EISBN: 9781139198868
    EISBN: 110734803X
    EISBN: 9781107348035
    EISBN: 1107236436
    EISBN: 9781107236431
    EISBN: 9781107357655
    EISBN: 1107357659
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139198868
    OCLC: 857650588
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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