Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference /
Jenny Shaw.
- 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Early American places .
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.