From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807

In a brief epilogue, she also addresses issues affecting slave life after the cessation of the trade and mentions the importation of laborers from India and China, which was contemplated "as early as 1805" in anticipation of increases in the price of labor arising from the abolition of the...

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Published inNew West Indian Guide Vol. 86; no. 1/2; pp. 132 - 134
Main Author Dunkley, D.A.
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 01.01.2012
Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
Subjects
Abolition of slavery
Coasts
Franklin, John Hope
Herskovits, Melville J (Melville Jean) (1895-1963)
James, Rodney
Klein, Paul
Manual workers
Negotiation
Slave trade
Slavery
Society
Trade
Williams, Martin
Jamaica
United States > US
West Africa
China
Africa
India
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Summary:In a brief epilogue, she also addresses issues affecting slave life after the cessation of the trade and mentions the importation of laborers from India and China, which was contemplated "as early as 1805" in anticipation of increases in the price of labor arising from the abolition of the slave trade (p. 116). Slave traders always had the economic condition of destinations such as Jamaica under consideration when negotiating for captives, and as Diptee points out, during the period of her study there was no dramatic decline in the demand for slaves in Jamaica. With a source as accessible as the Slave Trade Database it would be easy to fall into the trap of inundating a study such as Diptee's with tables and numbers, but she commendably transcends the old numbers game to give a more qualitative examination, and in this way is able to incorporate assessments of the linkages between the slave trade and some prominent developments within slavery and slave society in Jamaica.
ISSN:1382-2373
2213-4360