Description: Preface List of Contributors Introduction I. Negotiating Slavery/ Informal Contracts & Cash Rewards 1. Chattel Slaves into Wage Slaves: A Jamaican Case Study, Mary Turner 2. Strategies of Slave Subsistence: The Jamaican Case Reconsidered, Richard B. Sheridan 3. Slave Economic Strategies: Food, Markets & Property, Michael Mullin 4. 'Never on a Sunday?': Slavery & the Sabbath in Lowcountry Georgia 1750-1830, Betty Wood 5. Work & Resistance in the New Republic: The case of the Chesapeake 1770-1820, Lorena S. Walsh 6. Proto-Proletarians?: Slave Wages in the Americas Between Slave Labour & Free Labour, O. Nigel Bolland 7. Negotiating Freedom in Urban Suriname 1770-1820, Rosemary Brana-Shute 8. A Slow & Extended Abolition: The Case of the Bahamas, 1800-38, Howard D. Johnson II. Counteracting Freedom/Contract & Coercion 9. Between Slavery & Free Labour: Early Experiments with Free Labour & Patterns of Slave Emanicpation in Brazil & Cuba, Lucia Lamounier 10. Resistance among Asian Plantation Workers in Peru 1870-1920, Michael J. Gonzales 11. The Worker & the Wage in a Plantation Economy: Trinidad in the Late Nineteenth Century, Kusha Haraksingh III. Achieving Rights for Labour/Confrontation & Collective Bargaining 12. Contested Terrains: Houses, Provision Grounds & the Reconstitution of Labour in Post-Emancipation Martinique, Dale Tomich 13. Post-Emancipation Protest in Jamaica: The Morant Bay Rebellion 1865, Gad Heumann 14. The Pursuit of 'Higher Wages' & 'Perfect Personal Freedom' in St. Kitts-Nevis 1836-1956, Glen Richards Index

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