{"product_id":"searching-for-the-invisible-man-9780674796294","title":"Searching for the Invisible Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The Invisible Man of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Worthy Park and Its Context, 1670-1975    Part 1: The Slave Population at Large    1. The Population before 1783   2. Demographic Patterns, 1783-1838   3. Mortality, Fertility, Life Expectancy, 1783-1838   4. Death, Disease, Medicine, 1783-1838   5. Economics, Employment, Social Cohesion, 1783-1838    Part 2: Individuals in Slave Society, Selected Biographies    Introduction   6. Bunga--Men: Six Africans   7. Conformists: Ten Ordinary Slaves   8. Specialists: Five Slave Craftsmen   9. Accommodators: Five Patterns of Miscegenation   10. Resisters: Five Slave Nonconformists   11. Backra: Three Plantation Whites    Part 3: The Sons of Slavery    12. The Transition to Free Wage Labor, 1834-1846   13. Continuities: Worthy Park's Modern Workers   14. The Rope Unraveled and Respliced: The Evidence of Genealogy   15. From House Slave to Middle Class: The Descendants of John Price Nash   16. From Field Slave to Peasant-Proletarian: The Descendants of Biddy and Nelson   17. Coda and Conclusion: The Seamless Cloth    Appendixes   A. The Slave Data and Its Deficiencies   B. The Computer Programs    C. A Doctor's Views on Childbirth, Infant Mortality, and the General Health of His Slave Charges, 1788   D. Medicine at Worthy Park, 1824   Notes","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403611185495,"sku":"9780674796294","price":102.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674796294.jpg?v=1730483984","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/searching-for-the-invisible-man-9780674796294","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}