Newman, Simon P. A new world of labor : the development of plantation slavery in the British Atlantic

Folger bibliographic ID: 356953
Folger call number: HD4865.B35 N49 2013
Folger holdings ID: 505036
Accession Number: 271123

By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Part I. Settings. England -- The Gold Coast -- Barbados -- Part II. British bound labor. "White slaves": British labor in early Barbados -- "A company of white negros": the lives and labor of British workers on the Gold Coast -- Part III. African bound labor. "A spirit of liberty": slave labor in Gold Coast castles and forts -- "We have no power over them": people and work on the Gold Coast -- Part IV. Plantation slavery. "The harsh tyranny of our masters": the development of racial slavery and the integrated plantations of Barbados -- "Forced to labour beyond their natural strength": labor, discipline, and community on eighteenth-century Barbadian plantations

Item information about Folger HD4865.B35 N49 2013

Inscribed by Simon Newman to the Folger. Gift of Simon Newman

Extended title: A new world of labor : the development of plantation slavery in the British Atlantic / Simon P. Newman

Slave labor Contract labor Plantations Slave trade British

author: Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960-
inscriber: Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960-
publisher: University of Pennsylvania. Press