A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
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A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.
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