Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

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Author: Philip D. Morgan

ISBN-10: 0813914248

ISBN-13: 9780813914244

Category: Slavery & Abolitionism - African American History

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas1Pt. 1The Labor Force1Sugar Production and Slave Women in Jamaica492Sugar and Coffee Cultivation in Saint Domingue and the Shaping of the Slave Labor Force73Pt. 2The Economy3Sugar Cultivation and Slave Life in Antigua before 18001014Coffee Planters and Coffee Slaves in the Antilles: The Impact of a Secondary Crop1245Obligation and Right: Patterns of Labor, Subsistence, and Exchange in the Cotton Belt of Georgia, 1790-18601386Plantation Labor Organization and Slave Life on the Cotton Frontier: The Alabama-Mississippi Black Belt, 1815-18401557Slave Life, Slave Society, and Tobacco Production in the Tidewater Chesapeake, 1620-1820170Pt. 3The Slaves' Economy8Provision Ground and Plantation Labor in Four Windward Islands: Competition for Resources during Slavery2039Une Petite Guinee: Provision Ground and Plantation in Martinique, 1830-184822110As "A Kind of Freeman"?: Slaves' Market-Related Activities in the South Carolina Up Country, 1800-186024311Independent Economic Production by Slaves on Antebellum Louisiana Sugar Plantations275Notes303Contributors379Index381