{"product_id":"slave-law-and-the-politics-of-resistance-in-the-early-atlantic-world-9780674982994","title":"Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’ power in two prosperous slave economies: Jamaica and South Carolina. This struggle led to the abolition of slavery through a law of British Parliament in one case and through violent civil war in the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is, to my mind, the best history of the Anglo slaveholders and their slaves in the western Caribbean. -- Ira Berlin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt its heart, this spirited and comprehensive reevaluation of the British imperial project in the Americas is a story of the clashing politics of slave resistance and slaveholders’ repression. It reveals how the slave laws, first initiated in Barbados and later adopted in Jamaica and South Carolina, became progressively more draconian in the face of mounting slave resistance. -- R. J. M. Blackett, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this significant contribution to the history of slavery, we see how slaveholding regimes developed in response to slave resistance, were transformed in the Age of Revolution, and finally succumbed to concerted action from an array of antislavery forces. Tracing this process through the most profitable and brutal slave societies in Anglo-America, Rugemer sets a new standard for comparative history. -- Vincent Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Rugemer’s vital new book focuses our attention on the relationship between politics and organized violence in the two largest economies of British America. A superb example of comparative history that reveals how the most pernicious institution in the Western Hemisphere contained the seeds of its own demise. -- Peter C. Mancall, author of \u003ci\u003eNature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers new insight into the slave societies of Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina, which all emerged from the same historical moment and shared the same legal genealogy that developed during the expansion of England’s Atlantic empire in the seventeenth century…An excellent read, which will appeal to both specialized and broader audiences. -- Justin Iverson * H-Net Reviews *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403626946903,"sku":"9780674982994","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slave-law-and-the-politics-of-resistance-in-the-early-atlantic-world-9780674982994","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}