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Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700 Paperback – September 24, 2007

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English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding.

As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the "white woman" in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of "ladyhood" in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.
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  1. Print length
    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    The University of North Carolina Press
  4. Publication date
    September 24, 2007
  5. Dimensions
    6.12 x 0.71 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0807858544
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0807858547
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[An] engaging study. . . . Amussen's rendition of life in seventeenth-century Jamaica and Barbados is focused, significantly detailed, and apt.--Clio

Provides a valuable cultural perspective on early colonization projects . . . complements and extends the existing historical literature.--American Historical Review

Should be required reading in any undergraduate course focusing on Stuart England, and for historians and others interested in exploring the Atlantic world of the 17th century.--The Journal of African American History

Adds to the familiar picture. . . . Excellent book.--The Journal of American History

[A] well-written book. . . . Well done and informative. . . . An important contribution to the growing literature on the 17th-century English Atlantic World.--Choice

A lucidly organized and gracefully written work which builds effectively upon the insights of previous scholars.--Reviews in History

Fresh and insightful. . . . Offers a compelling account of how English involvement in colonial plantations had deep-seated and far-reaching implications for England itself.--Canadian Journal of History

An excellent and detailed account of how English settlers adapted familiar ideas and expectations to Caribbean realities. . . . An important analysis.--Journal of British Studies

A thoughtful, imaginative, well-constructed book that will be debated widely by historians of England and the British Empire.--Journal of Modern History

Amussen successfully reconstructs the seventeenth-century English Atlantic experience from a novel perspective as she documents transatlantic social influences.--The Historian

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Amussen astutely demonstrates that the changes that resulted from the trans-Atlantic movement of both slaveholders and slaves ensured that no institution in England remained untouched by slavery. By attending to the details of ordinary life on Caribbean plantations and the ways in which these details made their way back to England, Amussen greatly enhances our understanding of English colonialism and plantation building in the Americas.--Margo Hendricks, University of California, Santa Cruz

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of North Carolina Press (September 24, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807858544
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807858547
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 0.71 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • hmf22
    5.0 out of 5 stars thought-provoking study of how Caribbean colonization affected English society
    Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2013
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    This is a short book with an ambitious goal: to show how establishing a slavery-based colonial society in the Caribbean transformed English society. As Amussen explains in the introduction, she was inspired to write the book by someone's question about how Caribbean planters' rape of slave women affected attitudes towards sexual violence back in England. Ultimately, she concluded that "Each of the major transformations in the seventeenth-century Caribbean--in the organization of work, law, gender, and race--has a counterpart in eighteenth-century England. These English developments were not caused by the same events as in the Caribbean, but the sugar islands provided social and cultural resources that could be used as English men and women sought to respond to social change. The changes necessary to sustain a slave-owning society turned out to be--in modified forms--equally useful as England developed a capitalist and increasingly industrial society" (229).

    Inevitably, given the scale of the thesis and the brevity of the book, Amussen's argument is sometimes more impressionistic than thorough. I was most impressed by her in-depth treatment of highly specific topics, such as her close reading of Richard Ligon's and John Taylor's writings in Chapter 2 and her discussion of portraits of English socialites with black slaves in Chapter 6. Her discussion of the evolution of English Caribbean society in the 17th century is very good but not complete, and I suspect that future historians will find more parallels between developments there and social change in England. But these are hardly weaknesses in a ground-breaking study. I found that this book made me think about the relationship between England and its colonies in a new way.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Good summary
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    Author has clear and concise presentation. Wish it had more statistics though.
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