| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-312) and index. |
| Contents |
The Gray Zone: An Introduction to Thomas Thistlewood and His Diaries -- Mastery and Competency: Thistlewood Earns a Living -- Cowskin Heroes: Thistlewood, Slavery, and White Egalitarianism -- In the Scientific Manner: Thistlewood and the Practical Enlightenment in a Slavery Regime -- Weapons of the Strong and Responses of the Weak: Thistlewood's War with His Slaves -- Cooperation and Contestation, Intimacy and Distance: Thistlewood and His Male Slaves -- Adaptation, Accommodation, and Resistance: Thistlewood's Slave Women and Their Responses to Enslavement -- The Life and Times of Thomas Thistlewood, Esquire--Gardener and Slave Owner. |
| Summary |
"Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with the first comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diaries of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood." "In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786.
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Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786. |
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Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786. |
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Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786. |
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Thistlewood, Thomas, (1721-1786) |
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Thistlewood, Thomas. |
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Slaveholders -- Jamaica -- Biography.
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Slaveholders. |
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Jamaica. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Plantation owners -- Jamaica -- Biography.
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Plantation owners. |
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Plantation life -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
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Plantation life. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Enslaved persons -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Social conditions. |
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Jamaica -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme). Mastery, tyranny, and desire. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004 (DLC) 2003022319 (OCoLC)53231206 |
| ISBN |
9780807898741 (electronic book) |
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0807898740 (electronic book) |
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9781469605029 (electronic book) |
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1469605023 (electronic book) |
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0807828564 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807828564 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807855251 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807855256 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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