{"id":311,"date":"2019-08-29T12:57:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/?product=sugar-slavery-christianity-and-the-making-of-race-4"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:12:04","slug":"sugar-slavery-christianity-and-the-making-of-race-4","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/?product=sugar-slavery-christianity-and-the-making-of-race-4","title":{"rendered":"Sugar, Slavery, Christianity and the Making of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>by\u00c2\u00a0Mark E. Boren<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sugar, Slavery, Christianity and the Making of Race chronicles how the unprecedented demand for sugar radically transformed Western civilization at every level of society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Original in its conceptual and interdisciplinary scope and accessibility, this book is an ideal introduction to the complex intertwining of economics, society, culture and religion embodied in the Caribbean sugar and slave industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6this compelling (indeed, page\u00e2\u20ac\u0090turning) study convincingly argues that the technologies, practices and ideologies developed for\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the slave trade of the 17th and 18th centuries continue to define American and European culture today\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.This book critiques the pervasive and insidious effects of slavery, particularly the technologies that sprang up to ensure efficiency, compliance and productivity. The sugar plantation provided a testing ground for labor practices which would drive the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century and which continue to be used today\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.Boren&#8217;s range of reference is sweeping, his prose crisp and energetic, his tone frank as well as compassionate, his choice of illustrations\u00e2\u20ac\u201dboth pictorial and descriptive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpertinent and powerful. \u00e2\u201d\u20ac<\/em>Elizabeth Kraft, Professor, Department of English,University of Georgia, Athens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>About the Author:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark Edelman Boren is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His scholarship includes a comprehensive history of student uprisings,\u00c2\u00a0<em>Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Student<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(2001). An award\u00e2\u20ac\u0090winning teacher, he has also written on Harriet Jacobs, Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Henry James and William Faulkner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">196 pp., softcover, b &amp; w illustrations, 6 x 9 inches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Cat. #:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0CSP0307<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ISBN #:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a09781626320307\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[27,28,29],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-311","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-culture","7":"product_cat-economics","8":"product_cat-history","9":"product_shipping_class-shipping","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"featured","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}