| Description |
x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"This book incorporates findings from a conference held under the auspices of London University's Institutes of Commonwealth and Latin American Studies in May 1991"--P. viii. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chattel slaves into wage slaves : a Jamaican case study / Mary Turner -- Strategies of slave subsistence : the Jamaican case reconsidered / Richard B. Sheridan -- Slave economic strategies : food, markets and property / Michael Mullin -- 'Never on a Sunday?' : slavery & the sabbath in lowcountry Georgia 1750-1830 / Betty Wood -- Work & resistance in the New Republic : the case of the Chesapeake 1770-1820 / Lorena S. Walsh -- Proto-proletarians? Slave wages in the Americas : between slave labour & free labour / O. Nigel Bolland -- |
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Negotiating freedom in urban Suriname 1770-1830 / Rosemary Brana-Shute -- Slow and extended abolition : the case of the Bahamas 1800-38 / Howard D. Johnson -- Between slavery and free labour : early experiments with free labour and patterns of slave emancipation in Brazil and Cuba / Lucia Lamounier -- Resistance among Asian plantation workers in Peru 1870-1920 / Michael J. Gonzales -- Worker and the wage in a plantation economy : Trinidad in the late nineteenth century / Kusha Haraksingh -- |
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Contested terrains : houses, provision grounds & the reconstitution of labour in post-emancipation Martinique / Dale Tomich -- Post-emancipation protest in Jamaica : the Morant Bay Rebellion 1865 / Gad Heuman -- Pursuit of 'higher wages' & 'perfect personal freedom' : St. Kitts-Nevis 1836-1956 / Glen Richards. |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. |
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America. |
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History. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies. |
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Enslaved persons -- America -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Social conditions. |
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Labor movement -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Labor movement. |
| Indexed Term |
America |
| Subject |
Esclaves -- Affranchissement -- Amérique -- Histoire. |
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Esclaves -- Amérique -- Conditions sociales. |
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Mouvement ouvrier -- Amérique -- Histoire. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Turner, Mary, 1931-
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| ISBN |
0253210011 paperback alkaline paper |
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0253329728 alkaline paper |
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0852557132 cased |
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0852557124 paperback |
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