Slavery Without Sugar

Author : Verene Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0813025524

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Slavery Without Sugar by Verene Shepherd Pdf

"Urgently needed, since an examination of the sugar plantation complex alone does not effectively and conclusively provide the entire picture, or detail the factors leading to the profitability of the Caribbean economy. . . . An excellent, well-thought-out compilation."--Selwyn H.H. Carrington, Howard University The plantation economy model--at its core the sugar plantation complex that structured Caribbean society along a rigid enslaver-enslaved line--has so pervaded Caribbean historiography that it has often masked the social and economic diversification that existed in the age of sugar. Equally veiled are the gender, class, and ethnic heterogeneity of the slave-holding class and the variation in the occupations and lived experience of the enslaved population. This volume seeks to reopen discourse on Caribbean slave society by showing how diverse the economy and society really were and how varied were the experiences of the enslaved. 1. Indigo and Slavery in Saint Domingue, by David Geggus 2. Timber Extraction and the Shaping of the Culture of Enslaved Peoples in Belize, by O. Nigel Bolland 3. The Internal Economy of Jamaican Pens, 1760-1890, by B. W. Higman 4. Nonsugar Proprietors in a Sugar-Plantation Society, by Verene A. Shepherd and Kathleen E. A. Monteith 5. Coffee and the "Poorer Sort of People" in Jamaica during the Period of African Enslavement, by S. D. Smith 6. Slavery and Cotton Culture in the Bahamas, by Gail Saunders 7. State Enslavement in Colonial Havana, 1763-90, by Evelyn Powell Jennings 8. The Urban Context of the Life of the Enslaved: Views from Bridgetown, Barbados, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Pedro L. V. Welch 9. Freedom without Liberty: Free Blacks in Barbados, by Hilary McD. Beckles 10. The Free Colored Population in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century, by Franklin W. Knight 11. "Quien Trabajara?": Domestic Workers, Urban Enslaved Workers, and the Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico, by Felix Matos Rodríguez Verene A. Shepherd is associate professor of history at the University of the West Indies, Mona.

Author : Andrea Stuart
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307272836

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Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart Pdf

From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World--from the 17th century to the present.

Author : Alan H. Adamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598211373

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Sugar Without Slaves by Alan H. Adamson Pdf

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472138118

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Sugar by James Walvin Pdf

An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.' Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University and the author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, in the New York Times 'A brilliant and thought-provoking history of sugar and its ironies' Bee Wilson, Wall Street Journal 'Shocking and revelatory . . . no other product has so changed the world, and no other book reveals the scale of its impact.' David Olusoga 'This study could not be more timely.' Laura Sandy, Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of Liverpool The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an historical story. The story of mankind's love of sweetness - the need to consume honey, cane sugar, beet sugar and chemical sweeteners - has important historical origins. To take a simple example, two centuries ago, cane sugar was vital to the burgeoning European domestic and colonial economies. For all its recent origins, today's obesity epidemic - if that is what it is - did not emerge overnight, but instead evolved from a complexity of historical forces which stretch back centuries. We can only fully understand this modern problem, by coming to terms with its genesis and history: and we need to consider the historical relationship between society and sweetness over a long historical span. This book seeks to do just that: to tell the story of how the consumption of sugar - the addition of sugar to food and drink - became a fundamental and increasingly troublesome feature of modern life. Walvin's book is the heir to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power, a brilliant sociological account, but now thirty years old. In addition, the problem of sugar, and the consequent intellectual and political debate about the role of sugar, has been totally transformed in the years since that book's publication.

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Alan H. Adamson
Publisher : New Haven: Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Guyana
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035260814

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Sugar Without Slaves by Alan H. Adamson Pdf

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802777997

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The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker Pdf

To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold." As Matthew Parker vividly chronicles in his sweeping history, the sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers-so much so that the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture. While sugar came to dictate imperial policy, for those on the ground the British West Indian empire presented a disturbing moral universe. Parker brilliantly interweaves the human stories of those since lost to history whose fortunes and fame rose and fell with sugar. Their industry drove the development of the North American mainland states, and with it a slave culture, as the plantation model was exported to the warm, southern states. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Barons freshly links the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which is still felt today.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663604584

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Sugar Changed the World a Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies in India to Europe's Middle Ages, then on to Columbus, who brought the first cane cuttings to the Americas. Sugar was the substance that drove the bloody slave trade and caused the loss of countless lives, but it also planted the seeds of revolution that led to freedom in the American colonies, Haiti, and France. With songs, oral histories, maps, and more than eighty archival illustrations, here is the story of bow one product moved the grand currents of world history. Book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1792
Category : Dialogues, English
ISBN : BL:A0018550607

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No Rum! No Sugar! or, the Voice of Blood, being half an hour's conversation between a Negro and an English Gentleman shewing the horrible nature of the slave trade, etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469619491

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Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams Pdf

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

Author : Dale W. Tomich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034758057

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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar by Dale W. Tomich Pdf

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0606386343

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Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes Pdf

Sugar Legowski-Gracia wasn't always fat, but fat is what she is now at age seventeen. Not as fat as her mama, who is so big she hasn't gotten out of bed in months. Not as heavy as her brother, Skunk, who has more meanness in him than fat, but she's l

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Atlantic History Study Centers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : UVA:X006073569

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Slaves with Or Without Sugar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Russell R. Menard
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813925401

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Sweet Negotiations by Russell R. Menard Pdf

Russell Menard argues that the emergence of black slavery in Barbados preceded the rise of sugar. He shows that Barbados was well on its way to becoming a plantation colony and a slave society before sugar emerged as the dominant crop. He sheds light on the origins of the integrated plantation, gang labour, and slave economy.

Author : William Cowper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Slavery
ISBN : BL:A0024368282

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The Negro's Complaint: a Poem. To which is Added, Pity for Poor Africans. [A Children's Book. With Coloured Woodcuts.] by William Cowper Pdf