{"id":45353,"date":"2016-01-25T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T17:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45353"},"modified":"2016-01-25T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T17:47:41","slug":"a-tale-of-two-plantations-slave-life-and-labor-in-jamaica-and-virginia-by-richard-dunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45353","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by Richard Dunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/ehr\/cev299\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia<\/strong><em><strong>, by Richard Dunn<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ehr.oxfordjournals.org\" target=\"_blank\">The English Historical Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ehr.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/130\/547.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 1575-1577<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/ehr\/cev299\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/ehr\/cev299<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shaps.unimelb.edu.au\/about\/staff\/professor-trevor-burnard\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Trevor Burnard<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=39245\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia<\/em><\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.upenn.edu\/faids\/upt\/upt50\/dunnrs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Dunn<\/a> (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 2014; pp. 540. \u00a329.95).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.upenn.edu\/faids\/upt\/upt50\/dunnrs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Dunn<\/a> wrote a preliminary essay, published in a major journal, comparing the lives of enslaved people working on a large sugar plantation called Mesopotamia in western <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a> between 1762 and 1834 with the lives of slaves on a large <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tidewater_region\" target=\"_blank\">tidewater<\/a> grain-producing estate in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> between 1808 and 1865, he concluded that the experience of slaves in Virginia was better than that of slaves in Jamaica. To his chagrin, a local newspaper summarised his article as if the competition somehow validated Virginian slavery as being not that bad, considering how it was in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>That was nearly forty years ago. Since then Dunn has moderated those early opinions so that he now has a much more nuanced view of slave life in the English-speaking Americas. As he says, with characteristic dry humour, taking forty years to write a book is \u2018not a recommended <em>modus operandi<\/em> for historians\u2019 (p. 1). The result, however, is a magnificent and deeply humane evocation of two deeply disturbing worlds of slavery, neither of which exceeded the other in dreadfulness, and in both of which man\u2019s inhumanity to man is ever present. One great advantage of the length of time taken..<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the review <a href=\"http:\/\/ehr.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/130\/547\/1575.full\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by Richard Dunn The English Historical Review Volume 130, Issue 547, December 2015 pages 1575-1577 DOI: 10.1093\/ehr\/cev299 Trevor Burnard, Professor of History University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,21,459,8,6940,20,693],"tags":[22788,80,18974,18972,22787,8150],"class_list":["post-45353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-english-historical-review","tag-jamaica","tag-richard-dunn","tag-richard-s-dunn","tag-the-english-historical-review","tag-trevor-burnard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45354,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45353\/revisions\/45354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}