...Kelly Kennington An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade . By Alexandra J. Finley . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . 200 pp., $22.95 , paperback, ISBN 9781469661353. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 710...

...J. Elliott Russo Abstract The uses of enslaved labor outside the context of staple crop production become evident through an examination of colonial Somerset County, the southernmost Maryland county on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. By the early eighteenth century, conditions in Somerset...

... (2014), the sites of the British Greater Caribbean shared history, socioeconomic factors, majority populations of enslaved Africans, and, crucially for Johnston's study, environmental factors such as climate and endemic diseases. During the early modern period, the real and perceived environmental...

...Ian Beamish Abstract This essay argues that enslavers in the mid-nineteenth-century cotton South were interested in keeping detailed records but had minimal interest in advanced accounting methods. Drawing on the record and account books produced by Thomas Affleck in Mississippi in the 1840s...

... the widespread use of enslaved labor. As a conceptually reconfigured site, Pinar del Río offers a new narrative of Cuban tobacco, one that identifies and understands the area as an additional site of slave commodity production in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Through a pattern of interconnected...

...Neil Oatsvall; Vaughn Scribner Abstract This article utilizes a scientific definition of “work” to shift enslaved laborers and the environments within which they toiled to the heart of the historical conversation. Though British plantation owners and consumers often figure prominently in historical...

..., wealthy henequen estate owners enslaved Yaqui Indians from Sonora to work in their fields in the Yucatan. "Dependent Harvests" seeks to introduce these themes and to cast them into their proper transnational and agricultural history perspectives. Dependent Harvests Grain Production on the American...

... Jones invites readers into the little-studied worlds of enslaved people and their Arkansas enslavers in her eminently engaging and nuanced A Weary Land . Jones demonstrates the potential of a landscape-focused history of slavery, taking quite seriously and literally the clichéd phrase history...

... generations of enslaved people at mesopotamia plantation in Jamaica and at mount airy plantation in Virginia. dunn s research links careful demographic analysis of birth and death rates among enslaved people, the labor they performed on sugar, cotton, and wheat-growing plantations, what they ate, and how...

... the economic and social futures of the colonies. Given the mortality rate as result of the brutalities of plantation labor, planters were most concerned with how they could maintain a labor force without the continual supply of captives from West Africa, while British reformers wondered if the enslaved could...

... this hagiographic image of Washington, and Bruce Ragsdale further contributes to these efforts with Washington at the Plow . Ragsdale not only focuses on the founding father's identity as a farmer and an enslaver, but he also examines how Washington navigated a complicated tension between his public reputation...

... the Emancipation Proclamation, the border states, and the Civil War. She then turns back in time to establish the history, setting, and characters of Rose Hill. The people enslaved to Thomas Forman, the owner of Rose Hill, lived during a critical historical moment “in which men like Forman acted on their belief...

... the experiences of María Gertrudis de la Peña, an enslaved woman in Spanish society (169). He highlights Betty Powers, an enslaved woman of African descent who shared her recollections of the constant threat of sexual and whipping violence against women (251). Throughout this work, Barba deftly balances deeply...

... that linger in Scottish society today—took on increased urgency in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. The nation's historical connections to enslavement in the Caribbean and its enduring legacies have become a central aspect of the historiography of modern Scotland. In 2015...

... worker.” 6 Irish canallers were essential members of the “motley assemblage of casual, contractual, unskilled,” and enslaved workers who performed the labor that “made the early republic economy hum.” 7 This article explores the muddy tide of the Mississippi valley's antebellum history to uncover...

... on in the cotton states before the Civil War (274). in so privileging the words of white slaveholders, dunn reinforces harmful stereotypes. in dunn s narration, slaveholders and their employees did not rape or sexually exploit enslaved women, rather these men found enslaved women young and attractive and merely...

... 2019 Book Reviews 359 planters begin to shift their perspectives of enslaved women after 1807. Pregnancy and childbirth were no longer liabilities; the value of enslaved women changed because of their reproductive capacities to populate the colony. Turner shows that although slaveholders began...

.... The contributors offer nuanced evidence on enslavement and emancipation, European settlements, sugar production, burial grounds, cartography, fortifications, and trade in Nevis, St Kitts, Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Florida, Jamaica, and London. The book is divided into three sections: Colonial Landscapes...

..., such as the role of American slavery. While acknowledging the antebellum hemp industry s use of enslaved labor, Hashim nonetheless casts hemp as a democratizing influence in America and a site of small business where . . . ultimately, the system of feudalism was most successfully challenged, and ultimately...

... law “phenotype became a total, all-encompassing marker” in Natchez for the first time (184). Although enslaved people did not cease to challenge the system, they increasingly worked within that system as individuals and in their claims to freedom acknowledged the legitimacy of slavery based...