ISBN: 9789766405854

“Barbados, the beautiful Caribbean island known for its social amiability and political civility, was the site of the first ‘black slave society’ – the most system… More...

“Barbados, the beautiful Caribbean island known for its social amiability and political civility, was the site of the first ‘black slave society’ – the most systemically violent, brutal and racially inhumane society of modernity. . . . The society has a distinct social character and cultural identity that are rooted in its slavery past. Public perceptions of the nation remain linked to the legacies of slavery. Once described by an economist as closest in the Caribbean to a model of the ‘pure plantation’, first to be reformatted as a black slave society, Barbados remains the last to loosen the political stranglehold of plantocracy.” In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados’s history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century – the Portuguese and Spanish had commercialized chattel slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the 1500s – but in Barbados, the practice of slavery reached its apotheosis. Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized. The geography of Barbados was ideally suited to sugar plantations and there were enormous fortunes to be made for British royalty and ruling elites from sugar produced by an enslaved, “disposable” workforce, fortunes that secured Britain’s place as an imperial superpower. The inhumane legacy of plantation society has shaped modern Barbados and this history must be fully understood by the inheritors on both sides of the power dynamic before real change and reparatory justice can take place. A prequel to Beckles’s equally compelling Britain’s Black Debt, The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s “Barbarity Time “in Barbados, 1636–1876 is essential reading for anyone interested in Atlantic history, slavery and the plantation system, and modern race relations. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>World History>Latin America Hist>Caribbean Hist, The University of the West Indies Press Core >1<

ISBN: 9789766405854

The First Black Slave Society: Britain's "Barbarity Time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 The-First-Black-Slave-Society~~Hilary-McD-Beckles World History>Latin America Hist>Caribbean Hist Paperbac… More...

The First Black Slave Society: Britain's "Barbarity Time" in Barbados, 1636-1876 The-First-Black-Slave-Society~~Hilary-McD-Beckles World History>Latin America Hist>Caribbean Hist Paperback, The University of the West Indies Press<

ISBN: 9766405859

The First Black Slave Society ab 37.99 € als Taschenbuch: Britain's Barbarity Time in Barbados 1636-1876. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen, University of the West In… More...

The First Black Slave Society ab 37.99 € als Taschenbuch: Britain's Barbarity Time in Barbados 1636-1876. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen, University of the West Indies Press<

2016, ISBN: 9766405859

Kartoniert / Broschiert HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Karibik, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:University of the West Indies Press]

2016, ISBN: 9766405859

Kartoniert / Broschiert Karibik, with dust cover 11, [PU:University of the West Indies Press]