Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua, with Implications for Colonial British America | National Humanities Center

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Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua, with Implications for Colonial British America

By David Barry Gaspar (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)

Caribbean History; Colonialism; Enslaved Persons; Slaveholders; Slavery; British Empire; Caribbean

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985

From the publisher’s description:

Bondmen & Rebels provides a pioneering study of slave resistance in the Americas. Using the large-scale Antigua slave conspiracy of 1736 as a window into that society, David Barry Gaspar explores the deeper interactive character of the relation between slave resistance and white control.

Subjects
History / Caribbean History / Colonialism / Enslaved Persons / Slaveholders / Slavery / British Empire / Caribbean /

Gaspar, David Barry (NHC Fellow, 1984–85). Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua, with Implications for Colonial British America. Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.