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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821935703321

Autore

Burnard Trevor G (Trevor Graeme)

Titolo

Mastery, tyranny, and desire : Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world / / Trevor Burnard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2004

ISBN

1-4696-0502-3

0-8078-9874-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/62/097292

Soggetti

Slaveholders - Jamaica

Plantation owners - Jamaica

Plantation life - Jamaica - History - 18th century

Slaves - Jamaica - Social conditions - 18th century

Jamaica Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-312) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Gray Zone: An Introduction to Thomas Thistlewood and His Diaries; 2 Mastery and Competency: Thistlewood Earns a Living; 3 Cowskin Heroes: Thistlewood, Slavery, and White Egalitarianism; 4 In the Scientific Manner: Thistlewood and the Practical Enlightenment in a Slavery Regime; 5 Weapons of the Strong and Responses of the Weak: Thistlewood's War with His Slaves; 6 Cooperation and Contestation, Intimacy and Distance: Thistlewood and His Male Slaves; 7 Adaptation, Accommodation, and Resistance: Thistlewood's Slave Women and Their Responses to Enslavement

8 The Life and Times of Thomas Thistlewood, Esquire-Gardener and Slave OwnerNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World