A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 Part I: Settings Chapter 1. England 17 Chapter 2. The Gold Coast 36 Chapter 3. Barbados 54 Part II: British Bound Labor Chapter 4. ‘‘White Slaves’’: British Labor in Early Barbados 71 Chapter 5. ‘‘A Company of White Negroes’’: The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast 108 Part III: African Bound Labor Chapter 6. ‘‘A Spirit of Liberty’’: Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts 139 Chapter 7. ‘‘We Have No Power over Them’’: People and Work on the Gold Coast 166 viii Contents Part IV: Plantation Slavery Chapter 8. ‘‘The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters’’: The Development of Racial Slavery and the Integrated Plantations of Barbados 189 Chapter 9. ‘‘Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength’’: Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations 216 Conclusion 243 Notes 259 Bibliography 309 Index 321 Acknowledgments 325 ...