Cultivation and Culture Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

Name: Cultivation and Culture Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
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ISBN: 9780813914244

ISBN-10: 0813914248

ISBN-13: 9780813914244

Edition: 1993

Authors: Ira Berlin, Philip D. Morgan

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So central was labour in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together essays by leading scholars of slavery - historians, anthropologists and sociologists - to explore when, where and how slaves laboured in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves.

Book details

List price: $39.50
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 4/29/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Ira Berlin is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas




The Labor Force



Sugar Production and Slave Women in Jamaica




Sugar and Coffee Cultivation in Saint Domingue and the Shaping of the Slave Labor Force




The Economy



Sugar Cultivation and Slave Life in Antigua before 1800




Coffee Planters and Coffee Slaves in the Antilles: The Impact of a Secondary Crop




Obligation and Right: Patterns of Labor, Subsistence, and Exchange in the Cotton Belt of Georgia, 1790-1860




Plantation Labor Organization and Slave Life on the Cotton Frontier: The Alabama-Mississippi Black Belt, 1815-1840




Slave Life, Slave Society, and Tobacco Production in the Tidewater Chesapeake, 1620-1820




The Slaves' Economy



Provision Ground and Plantation Labor in Four Windward Islands: Competition for Resources during Slavery




Une Petite Guinee: Provision Ground and Plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848




As "A Kind of Freeman"?: Slaves' Market-Related Activities in the South Carolina Up Country, 1800-1860




Independent Economic Production by Slaves on Antebellum Louisiana Sugar Plantations



Notes


Contributors


Index