A tale of two plantations : slave life and labor in Jamaica and Virginia / Richard S. Dunn.
"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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: | x, 540 pages. |
| Format: | Book |