Following a story from the Caribbean to the colony of Georgia through debates over the abolition of the slave trade and finally to the antebellum South, The Nature of Slavery demonstrates the pervasiveness of a groundless theory about climate, labor, and bodily difference that ultimately contributed to notions of race.
Following a story from the Caribbean to the colony of Georgia through debates over the abolition of the slave trade and finally to the antebellum South, The Nature of Slavery demonstrates the pervasiveness of a groundless theory about climate, labor, and bodily difference that ultimately contributed to notions of race.
Katherine Johnston is an Assistant Professor of History at Montana State University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1: Labor in Hot Climates: The Seventeenth Century * Chapter 2: A Colony "on Fire": The Georgia Experiment, 1732-1750 * Chapter 3: "An Excellent and Healthfull Situation": Colonial Patterns of Settlement * Chapter 4: Atlantic Bodies: Health, Seasoning, and Race * Chapter 5: A Climatic Debate: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in Parliament, 1788-1791 * Chapter 6: The Place of Black Americans: Rhetoric and Race in the Nineteenth Century * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1: Labor in Hot Climates: The Seventeenth Century * Chapter 2: A Colony "on Fire": The Georgia Experiment, 1732-1750 * Chapter 3: "An Excellent and Healthfull Situation": Colonial Patterns of Settlement * Chapter 4: Atlantic Bodies: Health, Seasoning, and Race * Chapter 5: A Climatic Debate: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in Parliament, 1788-1791 * Chapter 6: The Place of Black Americans: Rhetoric and Race in the Nineteenth Century * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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