A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia / Richard S. Dunn.

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"This book reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two plantations--Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy Plantation in tidewater Virginia--during the final three generations of slavery in Jamaica and the USA. It also compares Mesopot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dunn, Richard S.
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Mesopotamia (Jamaica : Plantation) Mount Airy (King William County, Va.) Plantation life > Jamaica > History. Plantation life > Virginia > History. Enslaved persons > Jamaica > Social conditions. Enslaved persons > Virginia > Social conditions. Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene > Jamaica. Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene > Virginia.
Physical Description:	x, 540 pages.
Format:	Book

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