Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / Jenny Shaw.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9780820346342 (e-book)
- Irish -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century
- Irish -- West Indies, British -- Ethnic identity
- Catholics -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century
- Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century
- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century
- West Indies, British -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century
- 972.9/03 23
- F2131 .S427 2013eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An heathen brutish, and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of people" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic -- "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control -- "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations -- "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith -- "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English -- Domination -- "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.
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