- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bieber,Judy (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1997
- WorldCat URL:
- http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780860785064
- Published:
- Brookfield, VT: Variorum
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- ISBN:
- 0860785068; 9780860785064
- Subject Term:
- Caribbean area, History, Slavery, Latin America, Plantations, and Plantation life
- Notes:
- 333 p, Contents: Plantations, sugar cane, and slavery / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Indian labor and new world plantations : European demands and Indian responses in northeastern Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Slave families on a rural estate in colonial Brazil / Richard Graham -- African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800 / Colin M. MacLachlan -- Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in seventeenth-century Caracas / Robert J. Ferry -- Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790 / Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls -- Plantations, paternalism, and profitability : factors affecting African demography in the old British Empire / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Tale of two plantations : slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828 / Richard S. Dunn -- Slaves and slave masters on eighteenth century St. John / Karen Fog Olwig -- Tousssaint Louverture and the slaves of the Bréda plantations / David Geggus -- Freedom and oppression of slaves in the eighteenth century Caribbean / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Was the plantation slave a proletarian? / Sidney W. Mintz
