The First Black Slave Society: Britain's Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636-1876

by Hilary McD. Beckles

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In this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century - the Portuguese and Spanish had commercialized chattel slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the 1500s - but in Barbados, the practice of slavery reached its apotheosis.

Barbados was the birthplace of British...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:9766405859

ISBN13:9789766405854

Release Date:September 2016

Publisher:University of the West Indies Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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