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020 _a9781139198868 (ebook)
020 _z9781107025851 (hardback)
020 _z9781107680753 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aHT1165
_b.R63 2013
082 0 0 _a306.3/62094109033
_223
100 1 _aRoberts, Justin,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSlavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 /
_cJustin Roberts.
246 3 _aSlavery & the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (368 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aThis 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.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107025851
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198868
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37649
_d37649