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    3. A Comparison of Laws Importing and Regulating the Servants of Virginia and Jamaica in the Seventeenth Century

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Via,Vicki Rae Crow (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    Barbados: University of the West Indies, Department of History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Caribbean History
    Journal Title Details:
    38(2) : 310-334
    Notes:
    Colonial laws maintained the social and physical security of English settlements in the New World. This essay compares those laws that attempted to define and regulate servants and labour in seventeenth-century Virginia and Jamaica. The laws reveal differences in the social composition of their early populations and in the relationships each colony had with the imperial government. Earlier laws reflect a greater concern with the economic value of labour. In the last two decades, however, the laws defined new social constructs that would dominate slave laws in the next century. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];

    4. Amazing Adventures of Equiano

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Vayssieres,Jean Jacques (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    604 p

    8. Blind memory: visual representations of slavery in England and America, 1780-1865

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Wood,Marcus (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    Manchester: Manchester University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    341 p, A study of representations of Atlantic slavery in the visual arts between 1780 and 1865. It examines paintings, sculptures, prints, textiles, maps, ceramics, jewellery, needlework and theatre. The work also demands that we reconsider how slavery is culturally constructed in the West now.

    9. British in the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hamshere,Cyril (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1972
    Published:
    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    240 p