Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782: Volume 1

by Virginia Bernhard

Book Overview

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782, offers a fresh perspective on the complex relationship between racism and slavery in the often overlooked second-oldest English colony in the New World. As the first blacks were brought onto the islands not specifically for slave labor, but for their expertise as pearl divers and cultivators of West Indies plants, Bermuda's racial history began to unfold much differently from that of the Caribbean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826212271
• ISBN13: 9780826212276
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"