Planters, merchants, and slaves : plantation societies in British America, 1650-1820 /

Planters, merchants, and slaves : plantation societies in British America, 1650-1820 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme) (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Series:American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Subjects:
Plantations > North America > History.
Plantations > Jamaica > History.
Slavery > North America > History.
North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: plantation worlds
  • The rise of the large integrated plantation
  • Violence, white solidarity, and the rise of planter elites
  • The wealth of the plantations
  • "A prodigious mine": Jamaica
  • The American revolution and plantation America
  • Epilogue: slaves and planters.