 | A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic Subjects: Slave labor -- Barbados -- History; Contract labor -- Barbados -- History; Plantations -- Barbados -- History; Slave labor -- Ghana -- History; Contract labor -- Ghana -- History; Contract labor -- Great Britain -- History; Slave trade -- Ghana -- History; A New World of Labor connects developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast and with the initial development of African chattel slavery in Barbados, whose labor system played a foundational role in defining how plantation slavery developed throughout British America. Simon P. Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow and author of Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic and Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
