Author: Richard S. Dunn

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0674735366

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.