@article{ref1,
title=""[M]anaged at first as if they were beasts": the seasoning of enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century Jamaica",
journal="Journal of global slavery",
year="2021",
author="Radburn, Nicholas",
volume="6",
number="1",
pages="11-30",
abstract="How did British-American planters forcibly integrate newly purchased Africans into existing slave communities? This article answers that question by examining the &quot;seasoning&quot; of twenty-five enslaved people on Egypt, a mature sugar plantation in Jamaica's Westmoreland parish, in the mid-eighteenth century. Drawing on the diaries of overseer Thomas Thistlewood, it reveals that Jamaican whites seasoned Africans through a violent program that sought to brutally &quot;tame&quot; Africans to plantation life. Enslaved people fiercely resisted this process, but colonists developed effective strategies to overcome opposition. This article concludes that seasoning strategies were a key component of plantation management because they successfully transformed captive Africans into American slaves.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2405-8351",
doi="10.1163/2405836X-00601008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00601008"
}