A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic by Simon P. Newman

A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic

Simon P. Newman

336 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-prod...

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