The first black slave society : Britain's "barbarity time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 /
1955-
The first black slave society : Britain's "barbarity time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 / Hilary McD. Beckles. - xv, 296 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-284) and index.
Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.
9789766405854 9766405859
2016514428
Slavery--History.--Barbados
HT1105.B3 / B335 2016
972.981 BEC
The first black slave society : Britain's "barbarity time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 / Hilary McD. Beckles. - xv, 296 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-284) and index.
Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.
9789766405854 9766405859
2016514428
Slavery--History.--Barbados
HT1105.B3 / B335 2016
972.981 BEC