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Loading... Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indiesby Michael Craton
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. An excellent historical account of revolts against enslavement in the British West Indies from the 17th to 19th centuries. no reviews | add a review
"Craton performs an invaluable service by chronicling the continuity and persistence of slave resistance. He extends the implications of the argument that that West Indian slaves constructed a proto-peasant society in the shadow of the plantation, shielding themselves from some of its stultifying restrictions and forging networks of resistance." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.362Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Economic institutions Systems of labor, industrial sociology SlaveryLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |