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001			ocn894667594
003			OCoLC
005			20240726104914.0
008			141107s2014 maua ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dJSTOR _dCUS _dE7B _dYDXCP _dEBLCP _dOCLCQ _dDEBSZ _dYDX _dJBG _dAGLDB _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dIOG _dDEGRU _dDEBBG _dHEBIS _dMERUC _dOCLCQ _dOCLCA _dVNS _dOCLCQ _dVTS _dOCLCA _dOCLCQ _dSTF _dLEAUB _dAU@ _dOCLCQ _dK6U _dUX1 _dOCL _dOCLCO _dUKAHL _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ
020			_a9780674735620 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aHT1099 _b.T354 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aDunn, Richard S., _e1
245	1	0	_aA tale of two plantations : _bslave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia / _cRichard S. Dunn.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 540 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a2
520	0		_a"This book reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two plantations--Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy Plantation in tidewater Virginia--during the final three generations of slavery in Jamaica and the USA. It also compares Mesopotamia with Mount Airy to demonstrate the differences between slave life in the British West Indies and slave life in the Antebellum US South. The chief difference was demographic. Mesopotamia had a continually shrinking slave population, with many more deaths than births, which was standard throughout the British Caribbean. Mount Airy had a continually expanding slave population, with many more births than deaths, which was standard throughout the Old South. At Mesopotamia the slaveholders imported their laborers from Africa, worked them to death and replaced them with new Africans, so that family life was perpetually stunted. At Mount Airy, where the slaves were all American-born, the slaveholders sold their surplus people or moved them to distant work sites, so that families were routinely broken up. On both plantations numerous individual slaves are observed in action, a mix of leaders and followers, rebels and conformists. A principal theme is slave motherhood and intergenerational family formation; another is the impact of field labor upon health and longevity. The Mesopotamia people engaged with Moravian missionaries and responded to two major Jamaican slave rebellions, while 218 of the Mount Airy people migrated to Alabama as cotton hands. The book concludes with emancipation in Jamaica and the USA. Never before have two slave communities from differing regions in America been portrayed over a long time period in such full detail"-- _cProvided by publisher
505	0	0	_aPrologue -- _tMesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast -- _tSarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family -- _tWinney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family -- _t"Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane fields -- _t"Doing their duty" at Mount Airy -- _tThe Moravian Christian community at Mesopotamia -- _tThe exodus from Mount Airy to Alabama -- _tMesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the social contrast -- _tEmancipation.
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650		0	_aPlantation life _zJamaica _xHistory.
650		0	_aPlantation life _zVirginia _xHistory.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _zJamaica _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _zVirginia _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xHealth and hygiene _zJamaica.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xHealth and hygiene _zVirginia.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=886352&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hHT. _m2014 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c82405 _d82405
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell