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## Abstract Chapter 5 examines Parliamentary debates in the 1780s and 1790s over the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. West Indian planters insisted that plantations could never be cultivated without African labor. But others maintained that European bodies could stand the heat of the Americas as long as they were inured to labor. In their repeated petitions to Parliament, though, planters dismissed all history of European labor in the Caribbean colonies, insisting instead on its impossibility. By doing so, they solidified a rhetoric linking climate, race, and the ability to labor and portrayed differences between Black and white bodies as a product of nature.

Author

Katherine Johnston

Publisher

Oxford University PressNew York

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197514627

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology