Distance and Blame: The Rise of the English Planter Class

C. G. Pestana
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abstract:Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English, 1624–1713, remains a key book that shapes our understanding of the seventeenth-century Caribbean. His work depicts the creation of the English West Indies, with a special focus on Barbados's turn to sugar, its commitment to slavery, and the emergence of its planter class. Dunn sees the region as set apart by its socially dysfunctionality, a site of unprecedented brutality. He conveys a strong sense of moral outrage about the cruelties of life there. His depiction inadvertently supports the efforts to distance the slaveholding Caribbean from the English metropole. In this view, the Caribbean attracted the dregs of English society who then of necessity created a brutal social environment, one that included slavery. Dunn does not endorse this view of how slavery developed, acknowledging the role of elites and the middling sort in the rise of both slavery and the planter class that profited from it. We now understand slavery's reach differently, so that the West Indies (and even the lowest of its English migrants) can no longer be blamed for its rise and centrality.
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距离与指责:英国种植园阶级的兴起
理查德·s·邓恩的《糖与奴隶:1624-1713年英国种植园主阶级的兴起》仍然是一本塑造我们对17世纪加勒比地区理解的关键著作。他的作品描绘了英属西印度群岛的形成,特别关注巴巴多斯向糖的转变,对奴隶制的承诺,以及种植园主阶级的出现。邓恩认为,该地区因其社会功能失调而被分隔开来,是一个前所未有的暴行场所。他对那里残酷的生活表达了强烈的道德义愤。他的描绘无意中支持了将蓄奴的加勒比地区与英国大都市拉开距离的努力。这种观点认为,加勒比地区吸引了英国社会的渣滓,他们当时必然创造了一个残酷的社会环境,其中包括奴隶制。邓恩并不认同这种关于奴隶制如何发展的观点,他承认精英和中产阶级在奴隶制和从中获利的种植园阶级的兴起中所起的作用。我们现在对奴隶制的影响有了不同的理解,所以西印度群岛(甚至是其中最低级的英国移民)的崛起和中心地位再也不能被归咎于西印度群岛。
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