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Abstract This essay introduces a special issue on the management of enslaved people working on plantations in the British Caribbean and the American South. It focuses on the relationships between commodification, control, persuasion and enslaved autonomy.
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The Management of Enslaved People on Anglo-American Plantations, 1700–1860 Trevor Burnard AbstractThis essay introduces a special issue on the management of enslaved people working on plantations in the British Caribbean and the American South
Natalie Zacek explores the reality and image of two women slaveholders who engaged in monstrous behavior, one fictional and one real, but whose lives has been made semi-legendary through its depiction in popular culture. She examines how we look at episodes of sensational violence in which beautiful, cruel elite Creole women inflicted punishment on enslaved people unable to protect themselves
As Sandy and Phillips argue, “this was a significant development. It firmly establishes the emergence of the profit-maximizing planter presiding over a complex, diversified agricultural enterprise organized according to recognizably modern management practices.”
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The Management of Enslaved People on Anglo-American Plantations, 1700–1860 Trevor Burnard AbstractThis essay introduces a special issue on the management of enslaved people working on plantations in the British Caribbean and the American South.
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