Format:
Online-Ressource (368 p)
ISBN:
9781107025851
Content:
This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Clock Work Time, Quantification, Amelioration, and the Enlightenment; Science, Systems, and the Plantation "Machine"; Technology and Agriculture; Ameliorating Slavery; Tabulating Improvement; Clock Work; Conclusion; 2 Sunup to Sundown Agricultural Diversity and Seasonal Patterns of Work; Total Annual Labor; Cash Crops and Provisions; Breaking Ground; Tending the Crop; The Harvest; Conclusion; 3 Lockstep and Line Gang Work and the Division of Labor; Gang Hierarchy; The Efficiency and Productivity of Gangs
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Reforming and Improving GangsSexual Division of Labor; Conclusion; 4 Negotiating Sickness Health, Work, and Seasonality; The Discipline of Plantation Health Care; Sickness Rates; Seasonality and Sickness; Women, Work, and Health; Work and Pregnancy; Age and Sickness; Blame It on the Rain: Health, Work, and Weather; Conclusion; 5 Labor and Industry Skilled and Unskilled Work; Skilled Work on Plantations; Skills and Field Work; Skilled Women; Skilled Men; The Mysteries of Skill: The Boiler as a Case Study; The Threat of the Field; Conclusion
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6 Working Lives Occupations and Families in the Slave CommunityWork and Community; Work and Family; Work, Community, and Resistance; Conclusion; Appendix A:: Note on Sources; Appendix B; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Manuscripts; Printed Material; Secondary Sources; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107345539
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107025851
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807
Language:
English
Keywords:
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