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

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.