Planters Merchants And Slaves

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226639246

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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves by Trevor Burnard Pdf

"As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men men who, as Trevor Burnard sees it, lacked any better options for making money. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent racism or sadism, but rather out of economic logic because to speak bluntly it worked. These economically successful and ethically monstrous plantations required racial divisions to exist, but their successes were always measured in gold, rather than skin or blood. Burnard argues that the best example of plantations functioning as intended is not those found in the fractious and poor North American colonies, but those in their booming and integrated commercial hub, Jamaica. Sure to be controversial, this book is a major intervention in the scholarship on slavery, economic development, and political power in early British America, mounting a powerful and original argument that boldly challenges historical orthodoxy."--

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899823

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Sugar and Slaves by Richard S. Dunn Pdf

First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics, and the appalling mortality rates for both blacks and whites that made these colonies the richest, but in human terms the least successful, in English America. "A masterly analysis of the Caribbean plantation slave society, its lifestyles, ethnic relations, afflictions, and peculiarities.--Journal of Modern History "A remarkable account of the rise of the planter class in the West Indies. . . . Dunn's [work] is rich social history, based on factual data brought to life by his use of contemporary narrative accounts.--New York Review of Books "A study of major importance. . . . Dunn not only provides the most solid and precise account ever written of the social development of the British West Indies down to 1713, he also challenges some traditional historical cliches.--American Historical Review

Author : Christer Petley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315516073

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Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class by Christer Petley Pdf

From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the ‘fall of the planter class’, offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018544979

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British Colonial Slavery. [Documents submitted to the British Public by the Committee of West India Planters and Merchants.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Grandison Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011702909

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Inside View of Slavery by Charles Grandison Parsons Pdf

Author : Lorena S. Walsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807895924

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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit by Lorena S. Walsh Pdf

Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. Walsh focuses on the operation of more than thirty individual plantations and on the decisions that large planters made about how they would run their farms. She argues that, in the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Prior to 1763 the primary reason for large planters' debt was their purchase of capital assets--especially slaves--early in their careers. In the later stages of their careers, chronic indebtedness was rare. Walsh's narrative incorporates stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the suffering, resistance, and occasional minor victories of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure.

Author : Macarty (Captain.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : OXFORD:N11711701

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An Appeal to the Candour and Justice of the People of England in Behalf of the West India Merchants and Planters by Macarty (Captain.) Pdf

Author : Trevor Burnard,John Garrigus
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293012

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The Plantation Machine by Trevor Burnard,John Garrigus Pdf

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become more efficient at exploiting their enslaved workers and serving their empires. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus find deep and unexpected similarities in these two prize colonies of empires that fought each other throughout the period. Jamaica and Saint-Domingue experienced, at nearly the same moment, a bitter feud between planters and governors, a violent conflict between masters and enslaved workers, a fateful tightening of racial laws, a steady expansion of the slave trade, and metropolitan criticism of planters' cruelty. The core of The Plantation Machine addresses the Seven Years' War and its aftermath. The events of that period, notably a slave poisoning scare in Saint-Domingue and a near-simultaneous slave revolt in Jamaica, cemented white dominance in both colonies. Burnard and Garrigus argue that local political concerns, not emerging racial ideologies, explain the rise of distinctive forms of racism in these two societies. The American Revolution provided another imperial crisis for the beneficiaries of the plantation machine, but by the 1780s whites in each place were prospering as never before—and blacks were suffering in new and disturbing ways. The result was that Jamaica and Saint-Domingue became vitally important parts of the late eighteenth-century American empires of Britain and France.

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : 9780812251920

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Jamaica in the Age of Revolution by Trevor Burnard Pdf

"The book focuses on the history of Jamaica during the years between Tacky's Revolt, the American Revolution, and the beginnings of parliamentary abolitionist legislation in 1788"--

Author : Richard Pares
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Agricultural colonies
ISBN : 0758154348

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Merchants and Planters by Richard Pares Pdf

Author : Martin Ruef
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691173597

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Between Slavery and Capitalism by Martin Ruef Pdf

"At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late nineteenth century, as blacks and whites alike learned to navigate the shoals between two different economic worlds ... In the aftermath of the Civil War, uncertainty was a pervasive feature of life in the South, affecting the economic behavior and social status of former slaves, Freedmen's Bureau agents, planters, merchants, and politicians, among others. Emancipation brought fundamental questions: How should emancipated slaves be reimbursed in wage contracts? What occupations and class positions would be open to blacks and whites? What forms of agricultural tenure could persist? And what paths to economic growth would be viable? To understand the escalating uncertainty of the postbellum era, Ruef draws on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs, survey responses, census records, and credit reports. Through a resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and Capitalism identifies profound changes between the economic institutions of the Old and New South and sheds new light on how the legacy of emancipation continues to affect political discourse and race and class relations today."--Publisher's Web site.

Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674074880

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River of Dark Dreams by Walter Johnson Pdf

River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Author : Anton Allahar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Merchants
ISBN : 0772728542

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Merchants, Planters, and Merchants-Become-Planters by Anton Allahar Pdf

Author : Kathleen Mary Butler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469639796

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The Economics of Emancipation by Kathleen Mary Butler Pdf

The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.' In this first comparative analysis of the impact of the award on the colonies, Mary Butler focuses on Jamaica and Barbados, two of Britain's premier sugar islands. The Economics of Emancipation examines the effect of compensated emancipation on colonial credit, landownership, plantation land values, and the broader spheres of international trade and finance. Butler also brings the role and status of women as creditors and plantation owners into focus for the first time. Through her analysis of rarely used chancery court records, attorneys' letters, and compensation returns, Butler underscores the fragility of the colonial economies of Jamaica and Barbados, illustrates the changing relationship between planters and merchants, and offers new insights into the social and political history of the West Indies and Britain.

Author : Anthony S. Parent Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839133

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Foul Means by Anthony S. Parent Jr. Pdf

Challenging the generally accepted belief that the introduction of racial slavery to America was an unplanned consequence of a scarce labor market, Anthony Parent, Jr., contends that during a brief period spanning the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries a small but powerful planter class, acting to further its emerging economic interests, intentionally brought racial slavery to Virginia. Parent bases his argument on three historical developments: the expropriation of Powhatan lands, the switch from indentured to slave labor, and the burgeoning tobacco trade. He argues that these were the result of calculated moves on the part of an emerging great planter class seeking to consolidate power through large landholdings and the labor to make them productive. To preserve their economic and social gains, this planter class inscribed racial slavery into law. The ensuing racial and class tensions led elite planters to mythologize their position as gentlemen of pastoral virtue immune to competition and corruption. To further this benevolent image, they implemented a plan to Christianize slaves and thereby render them submissive. According to Parent, by the 1720s the Virginia gentry projected a distinctive cultural ethos that buffered them from their uncertain hold on authority, threatened both by rising imperial control and by black resistance, which exploded in the Chesapeake Rebellion of 1730.