Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard (Paperback, 2004)

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Author: Trevor Burnard ISBN 10: 0807855251. Title: Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves Item Condition: New. Used-like N : The book pretty much look like a new book. There will be no stains or markings on the book, the cover is clean and crisp, the book will look unread, the only marks there may be are slight bumping marks to the edges of the book where it may have been on a shelf previously.

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Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.

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PublisherT.H.E. University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-139780807855256
eBay Product ID (ePID)86567064

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Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Publication Year2004
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
AuthorTrevor Burnard
FormatPaperback

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Item Height235 mm
Item Width152 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorTrevor Burnard

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