A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia

Name: A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
ISBN: 9780674729988

by Richard S. Dunn

Anisfield-Wolf Book · 2015 · Winner

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Harvard University PressMarch 17, 2014Nonfiction HistoryISBN 9780674729988

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction	2015	Winner	“A Tale of Two Plantations by Richard S. Dunn won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2015.”

About This Book

A decades-long comparative study of slave life on two specific plantations—Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia—across three generations from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, drawing on detailed plantation records to reconstruct the daily lives, families, and fates of enslaved people. A landmark contribution to the history of Atlantic slavery. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize.

About the Author

Richard S. DunnAmerican

Richard S. Dunn (1928–2018) was an American historian and one of the foremost scholars of early American and British Atlantic history. He was the Roy F. Read more →