Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Title | Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 PDF eBook |
Author | B. W. Higman |
Publisher | University of the West Indies Press |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789766400101 |
Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834
Title | Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 PDF eBook |
Author | B. W. Higman |
Publisher | University of the West Indies Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789766400088 |
First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a whole. Contains excellent statistical tables and new introduction by author. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Title | Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 PDF eBook |
Author | B. W. Higman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 815 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780783747798 |
The Population Geography of Slavery in the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Title | The Population Geography of Slavery in the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 PDF eBook |
Author | B. W. Higman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Slavery |
ISBN |
Slavery, Freedom and Gender
Title | Slavery, Freedom and Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Brian L. Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789766401375 |
A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.
Slave Population 1807-1834
Title | Slave Population 1807-1834 PDF eBook |
Author | Higman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1979-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521295697 |
Slave Society in the Danish West Indies
Title | Slave Society in the Danish West Indies PDF eBook |
Author | N. A. T. Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Enslaved persons |
ISBN | 9789764100294 |
This volume is an account of the development and destruction of slavery in St Thomas, St John and St Croix, the Caribbean islands which today comprise the US Virgin Islands. The book sees slavery as fundamental to the entire fabric of colonial society, and pays particular attention to the social and political life of the whites and freedmen in interaction with the slaves.