Descript |
1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Planter Politics and the Fear of Slave Revolt -- Chapter 2. Edward Long's Vision of Jamaica and the Virtues of a Planned Society -- Chapter 3. A Brutal System: Managing Enslaved People in Jamaica -- Chapter 4. Tacky's Revolt and Its Legacies -- Chapter 5. The Ambiguous Place of Free People in Jamaica -- Chapter 6. The Somerset Decision and the Birth of Proslavery Arguments in the British West Indies -- Chapter 7. The Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution -- Chapter 8. Loyalism and Rebellion in Plantation Societies |
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Chapter 9. Slavery and Industrialization: The "New History of Capitalism" and Williams Redux -- Epilogue: Jamaica and the State in the Age of the American Revolution, 1760-88 -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments |
ISBN |
0812296958 |
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9780812296952 (electronic bk.) |
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9780812251920 |
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081225192X |
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