The nature of slavery : environment and plantation labor in the Anglo Atlantic world Following a story from the Caribbean to the colony of Georgia through debates over the abolition of the slave trade and finally to the antebellum South The Nature of Slavery demonstrates the pervasiveness of a groundless theory about climate labor and bodily difference that ultimately contributed to notions of race Labor in Hot Climates: The Seventeenth Century A Colony on Fire : The Georgia Experiment 1732 1750 An Excellent & Healthfull Situation : Colonial Patterns of Settlement Atlantic Bodies: Health Seasoning and Race A Climatic Debate: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in Parliament 1788 1791 The Place of Black Americans: Rhetoric and Race in the Nineteenth Century.