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    2. 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. An examination of slavery

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bawaya,Michael (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Summer, 2010
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    American Archaeology
    Journal Title Details:
    14(2) : 12-18
    Notes:
    Archaeologists are studying changes in slaves' lives in the Caribbean and the United States. Some 57,000 artifacts have been recovered from Papine, ranging from tools to ceramics to glass bottles to beads. A number of ackee trees grow on the site, and oral tradition has it that ackee and other fruit trees are good indicators of historic habitation sites.