Slavery Without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society Since the 17th Century - Hardcover

Verene Shepherd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813025524 ISBN 13: 9780813025520

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2002

Synopsis

The plantation economy model - at its core the sugar plantation complex that structured Caribbean society along a rigid enslaver-enslaved line - has so pervaded Caribbean historiography that it has often masked the social and economic diversification that existed in the age of sugar. Equally veiled are the gender, class, and ethnic heterogeneity of the slave-holding class and the variation in the occupations and lived experience of the enslaved population. This volume seeks to reopen discourse on Caribbean slave society by showing how diverse the economy and society really were and how varied were the experiences of the enslaved.

About this title

About the Author:

Verene A. Shepherd is associate professor of history at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her published works include Transients to Settlers, Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World, and Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0813025524
• ISBN 13: 9780813025520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336