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The Driver’s Story
- Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
- ナレーター: Tom Parks
- 再生時間: 6 時間 32 分
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あらすじ・解説
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century 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 heart of the plantation world.
Browne shows that on plantations across the Americas, drivers were at the center of enslaved people's working lives, social relationships, and struggles against slavery. Drivers enforced labor discipline and confronted the resistance of their fellow enslaved laborers, aiming to maintain a position that helped them survive in a world where enslaved people were treated as disposable. Drivers also protected the people they supervised, negotiating workloads and customary rights to essentials. Within the slave community, drivers helped other enslaved people create a sense of belonging. Sometimes, drivers even organized rebellions, sabotaging the very system they were appointed to support.
The Driver's Story enriches our understanding of the war between enslavers and enslaved laborers by focusing on its front line.