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The nature of slavery : environment and plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world /

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"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 especiall...

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Main Author: Johnston, Katherine (Katherine M.) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
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
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.