Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Dunn, Richard S.
Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Dunn, Richard S.

Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive...
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Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Dunn, Richard S.

Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

$144.95
Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia by Dunn, Richard S.

Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

$144.95
Author: Richard S. Dunn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the individual lives and collective experiences of three generations of slaves on the Mesopotamia sugar estate in Jamaica and the Mount Airy plantation in tidewater Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery could take. Dunn's stunning achievement is a rich and compelling history of bondage in two very different Atlantic world settings.

From the mid-eighteenth century to emancipation in 1834, life in Mesopotamia was shaped and stunted by deadly work regimens, rampant disease, and dependence on the slave trade for new laborers. At Mount Airy, where the population continually expanded until emancipation in 1865, the "surplus" slaves were sold or moved to distant work sites, and families were routinely broken up. Over two hundred of these Virginia slaves were sent eight hundred miles to the Cotton South.

In the genealogies that Dunn has painstakingly assembled, we can trace a Mesopotamia fieldhand through every stage of her bondage, and contrast her harsh treatment with the fortunes of her rebellious mulatto son and clever quadroon granddaughter. We track a Mount Airy craftworker through a stormy life of interracial sex, escape, and family breakup. The details of individuals' lives enable us to grasp the full experience of both slave communities as they labored and loved, and ultimately became free.

Author: Richard S. Dunn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 10/06/2014
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 9.57h x 6.48w x 1.59d
ISBN: 9780674735361


Award: George Washington Book Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/04/2015 pg. 14
Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1562

About the Author
Dunn, Richard S.: - Richard S. Dunn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his publications are Sugar and Slaves in 1972; The Papers of William Penn, edited with Mary Maples Dunn, in four volumes published in 1981-1987; and The Journal of John Winthrop, edited with Laetitia Yeandle, published in 1996. He also designed the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and was its founding director.
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