| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616–1782. By Virginia Bernhard. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xx, 316 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-8262-1227-1.)

Several works have been published concerning the world of slaves in the British West Indies, but only a few deal with the issue of masters and servants specifically in the Bermudas. The overall studies on slavery in the British colonies have primarily dealt with historic reconstruction of events without making an analysis of its progression. 1

The book Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda by Virginia Bernhard is dedicated to the peculiar world of that region. Based on a considerable amount of sources that include public documents (official letters, instructions, court records, estate surveys) and other types of manuscripts such as private letters and papers, the author revives the extraordinary past of slaveholders and slaves, drawn apart by social and economic rank but closely related in terms of daily practice and life-style. 2

The society in the Bermudas is analyzed in its two stages, the first one beginning in 1612 under the Somers Island Company and the second one starting in 1648, under royal control. The theses of the author have little connection with this particular periodic analysis, as the features of the society, in comparison to those of the continent or the Caribbean region, are the same across both stages. . . .

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