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The first black slave society : Britain's "barbarity time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 / Hilary McD. Beckles.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: xv, 296 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789766405854
  • 9766405859
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.981 BEC 23
LOC classification:
  • HT1105.B3 B335 2016
Summary: 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.
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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.

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