{"product_id":"the-first-black-slave-society-britains-barbarity-time-in-barbados-1636-1876-9789766405854","title":"The First Black Slave Society: Britain's \"Barbarity Time\" in Barbados, 1636-1876","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable exploration of the brutal course of Barbados's history, Hilary McD. Beckles details the systematic barbarism of the British colonial project. Trade in enslaved Africans was not new in the Americas in the seventeenth century - the Portuguese and Spanish had commercialized chattel slavery in Brazil and Cuba in the 1500s - but in Barbados, the practice of slavery reached its apotheosis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized. The geography of Barbados was ideally suited to sugar plantations and there were enormous fortunes to be made for British royalty and ruling elites from sugar produced by an enslaved, \"disposable\" workforce, fortunes that secured Britain's place as an imperial superpower. The inhumane legacy of plantation society has shaped modern Barbados and this history must be fully understood by the inheritors on both sides of the power dynamic before real change and reparatory justice can take place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA prequel to Beckles's equally compelling \u003ci\u003eBritain's Black Debt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe First Black Slave Society: Britain's \"Barbarity Time\" in Barbados, 1636-1876\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in Atlantic history, slavery and the plantation system, and modern race relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeckles, Hilary MCD:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eHILARY McD. BECKLES\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies. His many publications include \u003ci\u003eBritain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Nation Imagined: The First West Indies Test Tour, 1928\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFreedoms Won: Emancipation, Identity and Nationhood in the Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of the West Indies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50912717537554,"sku":"9789766405854","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15e6ca47-c4a4-477b-9a6f-d8aab1d2fb87.jpg?v=1738777493","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-first-black-slave-society-britains-barbarity-time-in-barbados-1636-1876-9789766405854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}