Slavery Reader Book

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	Acknowledgements
	General Introduction	1
1	Epidemiology and the Slave Trade	11
2	Why Africans? The Rise of the Slave Trade to 1700	30
3	West Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: New Evidence of Long-Run Trends	42
4	Labour and Coercion in the English Atlantic World from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Century	58
5	First Slavery: From Indian to African	83
6	Slavery and Slave Society in the British Caribbean	103
7	Modern Tensions and the Origins of American Slavery	112
8	Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America	122
9	Trade and Exchange in Jamaica in the Period of Slavery	161
10	Sugar's Poor Relation: Coffee Planting in the British West Indies, 1720-1833	175
11	Work and Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700 to 1880	194
12	Black Labor - White Rice	224
13	Persistent Myths about the Afro-American Family	252
14	Changing Patterns of Slave Family in the British West Indies	274
15	There Was No 'Absalom' on the Ball Plantations: Slave-Naming Practices in the South Carolina Low Country, 1720-1865	300
16	The Significance of Kin	332
17	The 'Folk' Culture of the Slaves	364
18	The Americas: The Survival of African Religions	384
19	'Us Likes a Mixtery': Listening to African-American Slave Music	405
20	From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America	427
21	Provision Ground and Plantation Labour in Four Windward Islands: Competition for Resources During Slavery	470
22	Independent Economic Production by Slaves on Antebellum Louisiana Sugar Plantations	486
23	An Economic Life of Their Own: Slaves as Commodity Producers and Distributors in Barbados	507
24	The Origins of the Jamaican Market System	521
25	Some Aspects of Female Resistance to Chattel Slavery in Low Country Georgia, 1763-1815	551
26	'A Countryside Full of Flames': A Reconsideration of The Stono Rebellion and Slave Rebelliousness in the Early Eighteenth-Century South Carolina Lowcountry	569
27	Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados	594
28	Maroons and Their Communities	608
29	Resistance and Accommodation in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Slave's View of Slavery	626
30	American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies	641
31	The Free Coloreds in Jamaican Slave Society	654
32	Marginality and Free Coloured Identity in Caribbean Slave Society	668
33	Igbo and Myth Igbo: Culture and Ethnicity in the Atlantic World, 1600-1850	682
34	History and Africa/Africa and History	707
35	West Africa in the Atlantic Community: The Case of the Slave Coast	739
36	The African Experience of the '20 and Odd Negroes' Arriving in Virginia in 1619	764
37	Family Ties that Bind: Anglo-African Slave Traders in Africa and Florida, John Fraser and His Descendants	778
	Index	796