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Richard S. Dunn is Nichols Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author, among other books, of A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia. This book reconstructs the individual lives of over two thousand slaves who lived on Mesopotamia sugar estate in Jamaica and Mount Airy plantation in Virginia. One chapter is devoted to Affy, a Jamaica slave, and four generations of her family, and a companion chapter to Winnie Grimshaw, a Virginia slave, and four generations of her family. Both Affy and Winnie were humble down-trodden figures in conventional terms, but Affy's relations with her son and granddaughter, and Winnie's relations with her parents and siblings illuminate important here-to-fore hidden aspects of slave life.