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Slave Society in the City: Bridegtown, Barbados 1680-1834
Pedro L.V. Welch
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Slave Society in the City: Bridegtown, Barbados 1680-1834
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Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados, 16801834 is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a contemporary historian. Having adeptly mined the existing archival data and statistics on Bridgetown, Pedro Welch shares with readers these nuggets of information that contribute immensely to our understanding of the way slave societies functioned in the Caribbean.

The book shows how life in the urban slave society departed significantly from that of the rural plantation. There is considerable evidence indicating that slaves and freed persons found and utilised ‘room-to-manoeuvre options’ in that urban context which allowed some of them to amass small fortunes and landholdings, act relatively freely and independently and occasionally be acknowledged almost as the equal of their white counterparts. Several areas of urban social formation are analysed in the study. Demographic issues, trade and commerce, gender issues, social and economic issues in the white enslaved and free coloured communities receive detailed treatment in this volume.

Slave Society in the City is a highly original and substantial work on Caribbean historiography, whose original publication coincided with the 375th anniversary of the founding of Bridgetown, Barbados.

Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-806-6
Table of Contents
List of Figures & Tables
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: UNCOVERING THE URBAN MATRIX
CHAPTER 2: URBAN ECOLOGY IN COLONIAL BARBADOS - THE EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF BRIDGETOWN
CHAPTER 3: BRIDGETOWN AS PORT TOWN - THE MARITIME ECONOMY
CHAPTER 4: BRIDGETOWN AS PORT TOWN - INTERFACE WITH URBAN SOCIETY
CHAPTER 5: DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE URBAN POPULATION
CHAPTER 6: WHITE LIFE IN AN URBAN SLAVE COMMUNITY
CHAPTER 7: LIFE AND LEISURE IN THE URBAN SLAVE COMMUNITY
CHAPTER 8: IN SEARCH OF THE OSTREHANS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES
CHAPTER 9: REFLECTIONS
POSTSCRIPT
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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