Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1650-1700
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As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. She demonstrates that the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. The English Caribbean and Caribbean England Chapter 1. Trade and Settlement: England and the World in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 2. Islands of Difference: Crossing the Atlantic, Experiencing the West Indies Chapter 3. "A happy and innocent way of thriving": Planting Sugar, Building a Society Chapter 4. "Right English Government": Law and Liberty, Service and Slavery0 Chapter 5. "Due Order and Subjection": Hierarchy, Resistance, and Repression Chapter 6. "If her son is living with you she sends her love": The Caribbean in England, 1650-1700 Epilogue. Race, Gender, and Class Crossing the English Atlantic Notes Bibliography Index A section of illustrations
