Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

Name: Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
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ISBN: 9780807855256

ISBN-10: 0807855251

ISBN-13: 9780807855256

Edition: 2004

Authors: Trevor Burnard

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Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/24/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The gray zone : an introduction to Thomas Thistlewood and his diaries



Mastery and competency : Thistlewood earns a living



Cowskin heroes : Thistlewood, slavery, and white egalitarianism



In the scientific manner : Thistlewood and the practical enlightenment in a slavery regime



Weapons of the strong and responses of the weak : Thistlewood's war with his slaves



Cooperation and contestation, intimacy and distance : Thistlewood and his male slaves



Adaptation, accomodation, and resistance : Thistlewood's slave women and their responses to enslavement



The life and times of Thomas Thistlewood, esquire : gardener and slave owner


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