{"product_id":"tale-of-two-plantations-richard-s-dunn-9780674735361","title":"A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eForty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book \u003ci\u003eSugar and Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the individual lives and collective experiences of three generations of slaves on the Mesopotamia sugar estate in Jamaica and the Mount Airy plantation in tidewater Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery could take. Dunn's stunning achievement is a rich and compelling history of bondage in two very different Atlantic world settings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the mid-eighteenth century to emancipation in 1834, life in Mesopotamia was shaped and stunted by deadly work regimens, rampant disease, and dependence on the slave trade for new laborers. At Mount Airy, where the population continually expanded until emancipation in 1865, the \"surplus\" slaves were sold or moved to distant work sites, and families were routinely broken up. Over two hundred of these Virginia slaves were sent eight hundred miles to the Cotton South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the genealogies that Dunn has painstakingly assembled, we can trace a Mesopotamia fieldhand through every stage of her bondage, and contrast her harsh treatment with the fortunes of her rebellious mulatto son and clever quadroon granddaughter. We track a Mount Airy craftworker through a stormy life of interracial sex, escape, and family breakup. The details of individuals' lives enable us to grasp the full experience of both slave communities as they labored and loved, and ultimately became free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard S. Dunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674735366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674735361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.57h x 6.48w x 1.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e George Washington Book Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/04\/2015 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2015 pg. 1562","brand":"Richard S. Dunn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995566473471,"sku":"9780674735361","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe23fe83-3f47-4aed-bb19-f375027953aa.jpg?v=1683336548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tale-of-two-plantations-richard-s-dunn-9780674735361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}