Trevor Burnard

Jamaica in the Age of Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining such events as Tackey's Rebellion of 1760, the Somerset decision of 1772, and the murder case of the Zong in 1873 in an Atlantic context, Burnard reveals Jamiaca to be a brutally effective society that was adaptable to new economic and political circumstances, even when placed under stress, as during the American Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251920
• ISBN-10: 081225192X
• Artikelnr.: 58770192

Autorenporträt

Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and Director of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. He is coauthor, with John Garrigus, of The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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
Acknowledgments