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Chapter 2. Challenging the “Right of a Master to Punish”

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© 2020 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Slavery and Empire on the Wild Coast 13
  5. Chapter 2. Challenging the “Right of a Master to Punish” 44
  6. Chapter 3. The Slave Drivers’ World 72
  7. Chapter 4. Marital Discord and Domestic Struggles 102
  8. Chapter 5. Spiritual Power and the “Bad Business” of Obeah 132
  9. Chapter 6. The Moral Economy of Survival 157
  10. Epilogue 190
  11. Appendix. Abstract of Offenses Committed by Male and Female Plantation Slaves, January 1–May 14, 1830 195
  12. Notes 205
  13. Index 267
  14. Acknowledgments 275
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
This chapter is in the book Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294279-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Slavery and Empire on the Wild Coast 13
  5. Chapter 2. Challenging the “Right of a Master to Punish” 44
  6. Chapter 3. The Slave Drivers’ World 72
  7. Chapter 4. Marital Discord and Domestic Struggles 102
  8. Chapter 5. Spiritual Power and the “Bad Business” of Obeah 132
  9. Chapter 6. The Moral Economy of Survival 157
  10. Epilogue 190
  11. Appendix. Abstract of Offenses Committed by Male and Female Plantation Slaves, January 1–May 14, 1830 195
  12. Notes 205
  13. Index 267
  14. Acknowledgments 275
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