Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807

This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves'' experience of the institution. Slaves'' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan...