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Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 (Hardcover, New)
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Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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