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Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class

Edited By Christer Petley Copyright 2017
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge
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From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade:... Read more

1. Rethinking the fall of the planter class  2. Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674–1784  3. Sugar, spirits, and fodder: The London West India interest and the glut of 1807–15  4. The rise of a new planter class? Some countercurrents from British Guiana and Trinidad, 1807–33  5. Gluttony, excess, and the fall of the planter class in the British Caribbean  6. The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823

Biography

Christer Petley is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his publications are Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (2009) and articles in Atlantic Studies, Slavery & Abolition and The Historical Journal

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