A New World of Labor The Development of Plantation Slavery in the
British Atlantic Simon P. Newman ""A New World of Labor" is a
landmark event in British Atlantic history. It is a major book by a
major historian and will have an enormous impact on the way we
conceptualize any number of topics, from the importance of
integrating once again seventeenth-century British developments
with developments in Africa and the Americas; to the necessity of
seeing the Atlantic slave trade as considerably different in Africa
and America; to reassertions of the centrality of labor in
understanding New World social and cultural development."--Trevor
Burnard, author of "Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas
Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World" "This
wide-ranging study persuasively argues that flexible and adaptable
forced labor systems existed in the British Atlantic, and that
Barbados was a major cultural hearth, where planters invented a new
and exportable form of bound labor. "A New World of Labor" is a
powerful and impressive work."--Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins
University ""A New World of Labor" possesses a number of strengths
to recommend it. Importantly, Newman contrasts the conditions for
workers with indentures in England versus those in the Caribbean,
pointing out how much more in keeping with slave labor the
indentured worker was in Barbados. Also significant is the equal
attention he gives to European and African workers in the Royal
African Company. Indeed, in Newman's hands, the English are finally
given the same sort of comprehensive treatment that other scholars
have devoted to the Dutch and Danish employees on the gold
coast."--John Thornton, author of "Africa and Africans in the
Formation of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680" The small and remote
island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal
change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it 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 New World. By
the early seventeenth century, more than half a million enslaved
men, women, and children had been transported to the island. In "A
New World of Labor," Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange
stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor. Simon P. Newman
is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University
of Glasgow and author of "Parades and the Politics of the Street:
Festive Culture in the Early American Republic" and "Embodied
History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia," both
available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. The Early
Modern Americas 2013 352 pages 6 x 9 15 illus. ISBN
978-0-8122-4519-6 Cloth $55.00s 36.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0831-3 Ebook
$55.00s 36.00 World Rights American History, Latin
American/Caribbean Studies Short copy: "A New World of Labor"
connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the
British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with
the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados,
whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how
plantation slavery developed throughout British America.
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