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Burnard, Trevor (2004) Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World. University of North Carolina Press and The Press University of the West Indies. ISBN 9780807855256
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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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Schools and Departments: | School of History, Art History and Philosophy > American Studies |
| Subjects: | E History America |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2012 19:36 |
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2012 07:53 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21474 |