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Mastery, tyranny, and desire, Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world, Trevor Burnard

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-312) and index

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Mastery, tyranny, and desire

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Trevor Burnard

"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 insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with the first comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diaries of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood." "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."--Jacket

Thomas Thistlewood and his slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican world

The Gray Zone: An Introduction to Thomas Thistlewood and His Diaries -- Mastery and Competency: Thistlewood Earns a Living -- Cowskin Heroes: Thistlewood, Slavery, and White Egalitarianism -- In the Scientific Manner: Thistlewood and the Practical Enlightenment in a Slavery Regime -- Weapons of the Strong and Responses of the Weak: Thistlewood's War with His Slaves -- Cooperation and Contestation, Intimacy and Distance: Thistlewood and His Male Slaves -- Adaptation, Accommodation, and Resistance: Thistlewood's Slave Women and Their Responses to Enslavement -- The Life and Times of Thomas Thistlewood, Esquire--Gardener and Slave Owner