Author: Richard Ligon
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2011-09-12
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 160384662X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex. Kupperman is one of the leading scholars of the early modern Atlantic world. . . . I cannot think of any scholar better prepared to write an Introduction that places Ligon, his text, and Barbados in an Atlantic historical context. The Introduction is quite thorough, readable, and accurate; the notes [are] exemplary! --Susan Parrish, University of Michigan
Author: Richard Ligon
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2011-03-11
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1603846980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the one major, book-length English chronicle and natural history of the Caribbean published in the seventeenth century, written at the time of experimental adoption of the sugar / African slavery complex that would come to characterise the Caribbean for two hundred years, to such disastrous effects, Ligon's True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados is a -- if not the -- central text that records and, in part, worries over this transformation.
Author: Frank Felsenstein
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1999-08-12
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801861062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →--from the Introduction [p.43]--John Gilmore "Slavery and Abolition"
Author: Richard Ligon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1134729618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates the size and complexity of the estates acquired in Barbados by subtle and greedy' planters, even in the early days of the industry.
Author: William Oliver Strunk
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1584
ISBN-13: 9780393037524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.
Author: Edward E. Baptist
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780820325637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades, the relationships between Indians and enslaved people, and enslavement in Latin America. Inventive and stimulating, the essays model the blending of methods and styles that characterizes the new cultural history of slavery’s social, political, and economic systems. Several common themes emerge from the volume, among them the correlation between race and identity; the meanings contained in family and community relationships, gender, and life’s commonplaces; and the literary and legal representations that legitimated and codified enslavement and difference. Such themes signal methodological and pedagogical shifts in the field away from master/slave or white/black race relations models toward perspectives that give us deeper access to the mental universe of slavery. Topics of the essays range widely, including European ideas about the reproductive capacities of African women and the process of making race in the Atlantic world, the contradictions of the assimilation of enslaved African American runaways into Creek communities, the consequences and meanings of death to Jamaican slaves and slave owners, and the tensions between midwifery as a black cultural and spiritual institution and slave midwives as health workers in a plantation economy. Opening our eyes to the personal, the contentious, and even the intimate, these essays call for a history in which both enslaved and enslavers acted in a vast human drama of bondage and freedom, salvation and damnation, wealth and exploitation.