1st Edition
Slaveholders in Jamaica Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition
By Christer Petley
Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they were unable to avert the ending of British slavery.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Slaveholding and the Jamaican Economy; Chapter 2 Colonial Society and Proslavery Culture; Chapter 3 Public Life and Institutions; Chapter 4 Local Challenges; Chapter 5 Imperial Interventions; Chapter 6 Uprising; Chapter 7 Backlash; Chapter 8 Emancipation; Chapter 9 Epilogue;
Biography
Christer Petley
