Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813914248 ISBN 13: 9780813914244

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1993

Synopsis

So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of slavery- historians, anthropologists, and sociologists- to explore when, where, and how slaves labored in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves.

The authors focus on the interrelationships between the demands of particular crops, the organization of labor, the nature of the labor force, and the character of agricultural technology. They show the full complexity of the institution of chattel bondage in the New World and suggest why and how slavery varied from place to place and time to time.

About this title

About the Author:

Ira Berlin is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His publications include, with Philip D. Morgan The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the New World and as, chief editor, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. Philip D. Morgan is Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications include Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry and, with Bernard Bailyn, Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813914248
• ISBN 13: 9780813914244
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Berlin Ira, Morgan Philip D.