The nature of slavery : environment and plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world / Katherine Johnston.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197514634Subject(s): Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History | Society | Society & culture: generalAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197514603DDC classification: 306.362091821 LOC classification: HT871Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: In response to abolitionist efforts to end the transatlantic slave trade in the late eighteenth century, plantation owners in the Caribbean, Britain, and the American South insisted that only Africans and their descendants could labor in warm climates. Black bodies, they argued, were especially suited for cultivating crops in the heat, while white bodies were incapable of such work. By examining personal correspondence regarding bodily health and the environment in the context of plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world, this book argues that defenders of slavery made these claims about people's ability to labor despite their experiences, not because of them. At the same time, the book shows how planters' claims contributed to historical myths about the transition to enslaved labor on seventeenth-century plantations.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In response to abolitionist efforts to end the transatlantic slave trade in the late eighteenth century, plantation owners in the Caribbean, Britain, and the American South insisted that only Africans and their descendants could labor in warm climates. Black bodies, they argued, were especially suited for cultivating crops in the heat, while white bodies were incapable of such work. By examining personal correspondence regarding bodily health and the environment in the context of plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world, this book argues that defenders of slavery made these claims about people's ability to labor despite their experiences, not because of them. At the same time, the book shows how planters' claims contributed to historical myths about the transition to enslaved labor on seventeenth-century plantations.
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