{"product_id":"a-new-world-of-labor-9780812245196","title":"A New World of Labor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the New World. By the early seventeenth century, more than half a million enslaved men, women, and children had been transported to the island. In \u003ci\u003eA New World of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e, Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor.\u003cbr\u003eFree and bound labor were defined and experienced by Britons and Africans across the British Atlantic world in quite different ways. Connecting social developments in seventeenth-century Britain with the British experience of slavery on the West African coast, Newman demonstrates that the brutal white servant regime, rather t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Newman's terrific book is among the very best studies we now have of labor systems and of ordinary people in the British Atlantic World. It focuses on workers-Europeans, Africans, and people of mixed races-who, of course, accounted for the majority of the inhabitants of that world. It also explores the range of labor systems developed by British, Africans, and Barbadians that formed the economic engine shaping many of the societies bordered on or surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. \u003ci\u003eA New World of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e both represents the maturing of Atlantic World history and charts new directions for scholars studying that area.\" * \u003ci\u003eReviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Newman's contributions are many: to reemphasize class as a determinant for the dehumanizing features of slavery; to place chattel slavery onto a spectrum of labor exploitation to further complicate and diffuse the relationship between race and slavery; to pinpoint Barbados as the birthplace of this class-based exploitation, but also to place Barbados into an integrated circum-Atlantic perspective that includes thorough analyses of the labor regimes of seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century West Africa; and to decenter narratives of slavery's genesis that focus on the American mainland and on race. The overall effect of \u003ci\u003eA New World of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e is a biographically textured and geographically expansive labor history that will act as a provocative foreground for established narratives about the development of racial slavery.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA New World of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark event in British Atlantic history. It is a major book by a major historian and will have an enormous impact on the way we conceptualize any number of topics, from the importance of integrating once again seventeenth-century British developments with developments in Africa and the Americas; to the necessity of seeing the Atlantic slave trade as considerably different in Africa and America; to reassertions of the centrality of labor in understanding New World social and cultural development.\" * Trevor Burnard, author of \u003ci\u003eMastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This wide-ranging study persuasively argues that flexible and adaptable forced labor systems existed in the British Atlantic, and that Barbados was a major cultural hearth, where planters invented a new and exportable form of bound labor. \u003ci\u003eA New World of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and impressive work.\" * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA New World of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e possesses a number of strengths to recommend it. Importantly, Newman contrasts the conditions for workers with indentures in England versus those in the Caribbean, pointing out how much more in keeping with slave labor the indentured worker was in Barbados. Also significant is the equal attention he gives to European and African workers in the Royal African Company. Indeed, in Newman's hands, the English are finally given the same sort of comprehensive treatment that other scholars have devoted to the Dutch and Danish employees on the gold coast.\" * John Thornton, author of \u003ci\u003eAfrica and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I: SETTINGS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. England\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Gold Coast\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Barbados\u003cbr\u003e PART II: BRITISH BOUND LABOR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"White Slaves\": British Labor in Early Barbados\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"A Company of White Negroes\": The Lives and Labor of British Workers on the Gold Coast\u003cbr\u003e PART III: AFRICAN BOUND LABOR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"A Spirit of Liberty\": Slave Labor in Gold Coast Castles and Forts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \"We Have No Power over Them\": People and Work on the Gold Coast\u003cbr\u003e PART IV: PLANTATION SLAVERY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. \"The Harsh Tyranny of Our Masters\": The Development of Racial Slavery and the Integrated Plantations of Barbados\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. \"Forced to Labour Beyond Their Natural Strength\": Labor, Discipline, and Community on Eighteenth-Century Barbadian Plantations\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405722001751,"sku":"9780812245196","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812245196.jpg?v=1730493390","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-new-world-of-labor-9780812245196","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}