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010 $a 2016056687
020 $a9780812249408$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
020 $a0812249402$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
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035 $a(OCoLC)967133747
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050 00 $aHT1140.B4$bB76 2017
082 00 $a306.3/62098815$223
100 1 $aBrowne, Randy M.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSurviving slavery in the British Caribbean /$cRandy M. Browne.
264 1 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2017]
300 $a279 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aEarly American studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another. Grounded in the nineteenth-century British colony of Berbice, one of the Atlantic world's best-documented slave societies and the last frontier of slavery in the British Caribbean, Browne argues that the central problem for most enslaved people was not how to resist or escape slavery but simply how to stay alive. Guided by the voices of hundreds of enslaved people preserved in an extraordinary set of legal records, Browne reveals a world of Caribbean slavery that is both brutal and breathtakingly intimate. Field laborers invoked abolitionist-inspired legal reforms to protest brutal floggings, spiritual healers conducted secretive nighttime rituals, anxious drivers weighed the competing pressures of managers and the condition of their fellow slaves in the fields, and women fought back against abusive masters and husbands. Browne shows that at the core of enslaved people's complicated relationships with their enslavers and one another was the struggle to live in a world of death." -- Provided by the publisher.$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aSlaves$zGuyana$zBerbice$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlaves$zGuyana$zBerbice$xSocial life and customs$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlaves$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zGuyana$zBerbice$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xSocial aspects$zGuyana$zBerbice$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xSocial aspects$zCaribbean, English-speaking$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zGuyana$zBerbice$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSurvival$zGuyana$zBerbice$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aViolence$zGuyana$zBerbice$xHistory$y19th century.
651 7 $aCaribbean Area, English-speaking.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01692660
651 7 $aGuyana$zBerbice.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01208719
650 7 $aGewalttätigkeit$2gnd
650 7 $aRechtsstellung$2gnd
650 7 $aSklave$2gnd
650 7 $aSklaverei$2gnd
650 7 $aSoziale Wirklichkeit$2gnd
651 7 $aGuayana$2gnd
648 7 $a1800-1899$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aEarly American studies.
852 00 $bglx$hHT1140.B4$iB76 2017