Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean

Burnard, Trevor

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_22

Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean

Burnard, Trevor

Authors

Trevor Burnard

Contributors

Damian A. Pargas
Editor

Juliane Schiel
Editor

Abstract

Slavery made the British Caribbean work and it did so largely within the institution of the plantation. British Caribbean plantation slavery was excessively brutal and exploitative but it was thoroughly modern and extremely productive and efficient. It brought great wealth to a few and to the British imperial government. But it made the lives of the majority of plantations workers very miserable as they were perhaps the most overworked and badly treated people in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

Citation

Burnard, T. (2023). Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean. In D. A. Pargas, & J. Schiel (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (395-412). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_22

Online Publication Date	Jun 15, 2023
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2023
Deposit Date	Oct 20, 2023
Publicly Available Date	Nov 16, 2023
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	395-412
Book Title	The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
Chapter Number	22
ISBN	9783031132599
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13260-5_22
Public URL	https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4421590

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