Caribbean exchanges : slavery and the transformation of English society, 1640-1700 /

Focusing on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, this work looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England.

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Main Author: Amussen, Susan Dwyer (Author)
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Series:UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
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Online Access:HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications
HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World
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Table of Contents:
  • The English Caribbean and Caribbean England
  • Trade and settlement: England and the world in the seventeenth century
  • Islands of difference: crossing the Atlantic, experiencing the West Indies
  • A happy and innocent way of thriving: planting sugar, building a society
  • Right English government: law and liberty, service and slavery
  • Due order and subjection: hierarchy, resistance, and repression
  • If her son is living with you she sends her love: the Caribbean in England, 1650-1700
  • Race, gender, and class crossing the English Atlantic.