1. For exceptions, see Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
2. and Hilary Beckles, Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1999).
3. For examples, see Hilary Beckles, Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989) and Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire.
4. Nell Irwin Painter, Southern History Across the Color Line (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 4.
5. Ann Laura Stoler, ‘Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies’, in Ann Laura Stoler (ed.) Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006)