This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

The patrols apprehended slaves outside of plantations, and they raided homes and any type of gathering, searching for anything that might lead to insurrection. During times of insurrection ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

Brutal physical punishment, psychological abuse and endless hours of hard labor without compensation drove many slaves to risk their lives to escape plantation life. The death of a master usually ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

A sugar plantation on Antigua, 1823. The hard work of planting and harvesting sugar led to long hours for the enslaved African workforce. An engraving depicting enslaved Africans being auctioned ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month ... 1800 and 1861 and was rooted in the daily realities the slave life cycles. Toward the start of the lecture, she explained how ingrained ...

One of the largest slave ... Andry Plantation – the starting point of the 1811 revolt. "This is an extremely important historic site to this legacy of resistance," Joy Banner said during a ...