The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World
Autor Katherine Johnstonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 ian 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197514603
ISBN-10: 019751460X
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 6 halftones
Dimensiuni: 238 x 164 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 019751460X
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 6 halftones
Dimensiuni: 238 x 164 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
White settlers justified slave labor in hot climates with the idea that only Black bodies could endure it. Katherine Johnston exposes this racist myth for what it was: a lie that made plantation America into a place of relentless brutality. The Nature of Slavery faces this hard truth without flinching, showing how Europeans undermined reason and science in their quest for commodity profits.
Katherine Johnston's The Nature of Slavery is a superb contribution to a growing literature on the history of race, medicine, environments, and slavery. Carefully researched and thoughtfully argued, the book unsettles basic assumptions about the origins of ideas about 'biological' race. It will be a must-read for years to come.
Consulting the public pro-slavery record, Johnston tracks the growth of a climatic defense of southern US and Caribbean slavery from the late eighteenth-century onward. The real breakthrough though comes from Johnston's digging into private plantation letters, diplomatic correspondence, and medical manuals to show that slaveholders never believed that Africans were better suited to labor in hot climates. Planters' awareness of the vulnerability of all non-native bodies to the American tropics, and hence of the similarity of Black and white embodiment, Johnston demonstrates, has long been obscured by later historiography's reliance on pro-slavery climate thinking. A remarkable account of the Anglo-American roots of environmental racism relevant to scholars of plantation history, racial science, as well as medical and environmental history.
Johnston has mined the literary output of the Caribbean slave plantation system, and its South Carolina/Georgia diaspora, to produce an impressive and unique examination of the British colonizing mentality. She shows with an abundance of examples why the moniker, 'made in Britain' is a precise descriptor of chattel slavery.
The Nature of Slavery explodes the myth that slavery made sense because Black people can labor in humid heat better than white people can. Johnston traces this big lie of environmental inequity, showing how the private writings of planters in the eighteenth-century Caribbean contradicted their public insistence that people from Africa were by nature suited for tropical enslavement. This book shows how racial theorists built the ideological foundations for human enslavement through long-lasting, deeply pernicious ideas about health that reverberated through Black advocacy in the nineteenth century United States and continue to affect medical care in our present day.
This meticulously researched book draws on a wealth of archival materials spanning three centuries to cast a fresh eye on the history of African slavery in the English Caribbean and the American South... The Nature of Slavery stands in a longer tradition of solid scholarship in colonial history, going back to the work of, among others, Karen Ordahl Kupperman- one of Johnston's mentors.
Johnston's book is a model of myth-busting and deep archival research. In these carefully researched chapters, Johnston locates the deadly roots of environmental racism in plantation America, making this book a must-read for historians of slavery, race, medicine, and the environment.
The Nature of Slavery is an ambitious work, not only for its temporal or geographic scope but also for the number of historiographies in which it seeks to intervene. Sitting as it does at the intersection of Atlantic and environmental history, this book will certainly interest practitioners of both...Johnston's core argument invites us all to reconsider the stories behind the archival or published sources we frequently use in our work. What other records are we looking at uncritically? What other Big Lies might we be repeating?
Johnston succeeds in crafting a tight argument critiquing historians' common assumption that planters must have been drawing on their personal experience in making claims of differing racial responses to climate, and, in doing so, she relocates human -- really white planter -- agency from instituting racial slavery as a reaction to climate to using climate to defend racial slavery...Her discussion of its quick acceptance by the general white population, including abolitionists, suggests that climatic understandings of health were so widely held that anyone might have used them in any argument. Whatever the depth of planters' intent, Johnston makes the case that climatic arguments for slavery contributed to more concrete and discreet racial categories.
The book is a work of social and cultural history: it is concerned with the perceptions and representations of demographic patterns and their causes. And as a matter of perceptions and representations, 690 Book Reviews what is clear-from the material that Johnston includes, as well as from a host of sources that she does not mention-is that it was a popular theme in English culture that people from England could not stand the strain of manual labor in the climate of the Caribbean.
Katherine Johnston's The Nature of Slavery is a superb contribution to a growing literature on the history of race, medicine, environments, and slavery. Carefully researched and thoughtfully argued, the book unsettles basic assumptions about the origins of ideas about 'biological' race. It will be a must-read for years to come.
Consulting the public pro-slavery record, Johnston tracks the growth of a climatic defense of southern US and Caribbean slavery from the late eighteenth-century onward. The real breakthrough though comes from Johnston's digging into private plantation letters, diplomatic correspondence, and medical manuals to show that slaveholders never believed that Africans were better suited to labor in hot climates. Planters' awareness of the vulnerability of all non-native bodies to the American tropics, and hence of the similarity of Black and white embodiment, Johnston demonstrates, has long been obscured by later historiography's reliance on pro-slavery climate thinking. A remarkable account of the Anglo-American roots of environmental racism relevant to scholars of plantation history, racial science, as well as medical and environmental history.
Johnston has mined the literary output of the Caribbean slave plantation system, and its South Carolina/Georgia diaspora, to produce an impressive and unique examination of the British colonizing mentality. She shows with an abundance of examples why the moniker, 'made in Britain' is a precise descriptor of chattel slavery.
The Nature of Slavery explodes the myth that slavery made sense because Black people can labor in humid heat better than white people can. Johnston traces this big lie of environmental inequity, showing how the private writings of planters in the eighteenth-century Caribbean contradicted their public insistence that people from Africa were by nature suited for tropical enslavement. This book shows how racial theorists built the ideological foundations for human enslavement through long-lasting, deeply pernicious ideas about health that reverberated through Black advocacy in the nineteenth century United States and continue to affect medical care in our present day.
This meticulously researched book draws on a wealth of archival materials spanning three centuries to cast a fresh eye on the history of African slavery in the English Caribbean and the American South... The Nature of Slavery stands in a longer tradition of solid scholarship in colonial history, going back to the work of, among others, Karen Ordahl Kupperman- one of Johnston's mentors.
Johnston's book is a model of myth-busting and deep archival research. In these carefully researched chapters, Johnston locates the deadly roots of environmental racism in plantation America, making this book a must-read for historians of slavery, race, medicine, and the environment.
The Nature of Slavery is an ambitious work, not only for its temporal or geographic scope but also for the number of historiographies in which it seeks to intervene. Sitting as it does at the intersection of Atlantic and environmental history, this book will certainly interest practitioners of both...Johnston's core argument invites us all to reconsider the stories behind the archival or published sources we frequently use in our work. What other records are we looking at uncritically? What other Big Lies might we be repeating?
Johnston succeeds in crafting a tight argument critiquing historians' common assumption that planters must have been drawing on their personal experience in making claims of differing racial responses to climate, and, in doing so, she relocates human -- really white planter -- agency from instituting racial slavery as a reaction to climate to using climate to defend racial slavery...Her discussion of its quick acceptance by the general white population, including abolitionists, suggests that climatic understandings of health were so widely held that anyone might have used them in any argument. Whatever the depth of planters' intent, Johnston makes the case that climatic arguments for slavery contributed to more concrete and discreet racial categories.
The book is a work of social and cultural history: it is concerned with the perceptions and representations of demographic patterns and their causes. And as a matter of perceptions and representations, 690 Book Reviews what is clear-from the material that Johnston includes, as well as from a host of sources that she does not mention-is that it was a popular theme in English culture that people from England could not stand the strain of manual labor in the climate of the Caribbean.
Notă biografică
Katherine Johnston is an Assistant Professor of History at Montana State University.