Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World

by Edward B. Rugemer

Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association

The success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrative sugar plantations and enslaved African labor, spawned the slave societies of Jamaica in the western Caribbean and South Carolina on the American mainland. These became the most prosperous slave economies in the Anglo-American Atlantic, despite the rise of enlightened ideas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674982991
• ISBN13: 9780674982994
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"