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

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	July 2013
Authors:	Justin Roberts
Dimensions:	231 x 150 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-02585-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-107-02585-0
Barcode:	9781107025851

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