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
Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the demographic contrast
  • Sarah Affir and her Mesopotamia family
  • Winney Grimshaw and her Mount Airy family
  • "Dreadful idlers" in the Mesopotamia cane fields
  • "Doing their duty" at Mount Airy
  • The Moravian Christian community at Mesopotamia
  • The exodus from Mount Airy to Alabama
  • Mesopotamia versus Mount Airy : the social contrast
  • Emancipation.