The nature of slavery environment and plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world Johnston, Katherine (Katherine M.) creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History nyu 2022 2022 monographic eng remote 1 online resource "In response to abolitionist efforts to end the transatlantic slave trade in the late eighteenth century, plantation owners in the Caribbean, Britain, and the American South insisted that only Africans and their descendants could labor in warm climates. Black bodies, they argued, were especially suited for cultivating crops in the heat, while white bodies were incapable of such work. By examining personal correspondence regarding bodily health and the environment in the context of plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world, this book argues that defenders of slavery made these claims about people's ability to labor despite their experiences, not because of them. At the same time, the book shows how planters' claims contributed to historical myths about the transition to enslaved labor on seventeenth-century plantations. Finally, this book argues that the language about climate contributed to the construction of race in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Atlantic world. By linking climate, race, and the ability to labor, planters categorically separated Black and white bodies from one another. Their arguments permeated a public imagination and, through the language of climate and bodily difference, became accepted as natural. Following a story from the Caribbean to the colony of Georgia through debates over the abolition of the slave trade and, finally, to the antebellum South, this book demonstrates the pervasiveness of a groundless theory about climate, labor, and bodily difference that ultimately contributed to notions of race"--Publisher's description. Labor in hot climates : the seventeenth century -- A colony "on fire" : the Georgia experiment, 1732-1750 -- "An excellent & healthfull situation" : colonial patterns of settlement -- Atlantic bodies : health, seasoning, and race -- A climatic debate : the transatlantic slave trade in Parliament, 1788-1791 -- The place of Black Americans : rhetoric and race in the nineteenth century. Katherine Johnston. Includes bibliographical references and index. Environmental racism South Atlantic States Slavery Justification 18th century Human beings Effect of climate on South Atlantic States History Racisme environnemental États du Sud-Atlantique (États-Unis) Esclavage Justification 18e siècle Êtres humains Influence du climat États du Sud-Atlantique (États-Unis) Histoire Colonial Period (1600-1775) United States HISTORY African American Slavery SOCIAL SCIENCE Human beings Effect of climate on Slavery Justification 1700-1799 fast E446 .J54 2022 306.3/6209033 Nature of slavery Johnston, Katherine (Katherine M.). New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] (OCoLC)1290379829 (DLC) 2023280011 9780197514627 0197514626 9780197514610 0197514618 9780197514634 0197514634 9780197514603 019751460X adwqfr89 cloudLibrary http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/44179 EBLCP 220618 20260318164330.9 in00005697145 eng