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Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700

by Susan Dwyer Amussen

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English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding.As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and show more new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barb show less

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Published: 2007
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