Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 /Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.
Roberts, Justin, 1975-
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 /Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. - New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Clock work : time, quantification, amelioration and the enlightenment -- Sunup to sundown : agricultural diversity and seasonal patterns of work -- Lockstep and line : gang work and the division of labor -- Negotiating sickness : health, work and seasonality -- Labor and industry : skilled and unskilled work -- Working lives : occupations and families in the slave community.
"This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement"--
9781107345539 9781107348035 9781107341784 9781139198868
Slavery--Colonies--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Slavery--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--18th century.
Enslaved persons--Colonies--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Enlightenment--Colonies.--Great Britain
Electronic Books.
HT1165 / .S538 2013
Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 /Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. - New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Clock work : time, quantification, amelioration and the enlightenment -- Sunup to sundown : agricultural diversity and seasonal patterns of work -- Lockstep and line : gang work and the division of labor -- Negotiating sickness : health, work and seasonality -- Labor and industry : skilled and unskilled work -- Working lives : occupations and families in the slave community.
"This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement"--
9781107345539 9781107348035 9781107341784 9781139198868
Slavery--Colonies--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Slavery--History--Atlantic Ocean Region--18th century.
Enslaved persons--Colonies--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Enlightenment--Colonies.--Great Britain
Electronic Books.
HT1165 / .S538 2013