The Driver's Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
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The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenthcentury Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist. In this system, enslaved Black drivers were tasked with supervising and punishing other enslaved laborers. In The Driver’s Story, Randy M. Browne illuminates the predicament and harrowing struggles of these men—and sometimes women—at the hea...


