Publication
University of Pennsylvania Press (2020), 400 pages
ISBN
081225192X / 9780812251920
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Planter Politics and the Fear of Slave Revolt
2. Edward Long’s Vision of Jamaica and the Virtues of a Planned Society
3. A Brutal System: Managing Enslaved People in Jamaica
4. Tacky’s Revolt and Its Legacies
5. The Ambiguous Place of Free People in Jamaica
6. The Somerset Decision and the Birth of Proslavery Arguments in the British West Indies
7. The Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution
8. Loyalism and Rebellion in Plantation Societies
9. Slavery and Industrialization: The “New History of Capitalism” and Williams Redux
Epilogue: Jamaica and the State in the Age of the American Revolution, 1760–88
Notes
Index
Introduction
1. Planter Politics and the Fear of Slave Revolt
2. Edward Long’s Vision of Jamaica and the Virtues of a Planned Society
3. A Brutal System: Managing Enslaved People in Jamaica
4. Tacky’s Revolt and Its Legacies
5. The Ambiguous Place of Free People in Jamaica
6. The Somerset Decision and the Birth of Proslavery Arguments in the British West Indies
7. The Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution
8. Loyalism and Rebellion in Plantation Societies
9. Slavery and Industrialization: The “New History of Capitalism” and Williams Redux
Epilogue: Jamaica and the State in the Age of the American Revolution, 1760–88
Notes
Index