From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas

Name: From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas
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ISBN: 9780253210012

ISBN-10: 0253210011

ISBN-13: 9780253210012

Edition: 1995

Authors: Mary Turner

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.210

MARY TURNER is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University.



Preface


Contributors


Introduction




Chattel Slaves into Wage Slaves: A Jamaican Case Study




Strategies of Slave Subsistence: The Jamaican Case Reconsidered




Slave Economic Strategies: Food, Markets and Property




'Never on a Sunday?': Slavery and the Sabbath in Lowcountry Georgia 1750-1830




Work and Resistance in the New Republic: The Case of the Chesapeake 1770-1820




Proto-Proletarians? Slave Wages in the Americas: Between Slave Labour and Free Labour




Negotiating Freedom in Urban Suriname 1770-1830




A Slow and Extended Abolition: The Case of the Bahamas 1800-38




Between Slavery and Free Labour: Early Experiments with Free Labour and Patterns of Slave Emancipation in Brazil and Cuba




Resistance among Asian Plantation Workers in Peru 1870-1920




The Worker and the Wage in a Plantation Economy: Trinidad in the Late Nineteenth Century




Contested Terrains: Houses, Provision Grounds and the Reconstitution of Labour in Post-Emancipation Martinique




Post-Emancipation Protest in Jamaica: The Morant Bay Rebellion 1865




The Pursuit of 'Higher Wages' and 'Perfect Personal Freedom': St Kitts-Nevis 1836-1956



Index