Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850 : capital and control in a colonial economy /
Higman, B. W.,1943-
Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press ; Norman, Okla. : Distributed by the University of Oklahoma Press,
2005.
"Plantation Jamaica analyses the important but neglected role of the attorneys who managed estates, chiefly for absentee proprietors, and assesses their efficiency and impact on Jamaica during slavery and freedom. Meticulous research based on a variety of sources, including the attorneys' letters, plantation papers and slave registration records, provides rich quantitative and literary data describing the attorneys' role, status, range of activities and demographic characteristics. Higman charts both the extent of absentee ownership and the complex structure of the managerial hierarchy that stretched across the Atlantic. Detailed case studies compare the attorney Simon Taylor's management of Golden Grove Estate in the decade before the American Revolution and Isaac Jackson's control of Montpelier in the years immediately follwoing the abolition of slavery."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Planters and proprietors -- Part 1: Managers -- Managerial hierarchies -- Planting attorneys -- Keeping accounts -- Communicating -- Part 2: Managing -- Two attorneys -- Managing Golden Grove, 1765-1775 -- Managing Montpelier, 1839-1843 -- Honour among thieves.
"Plantation Jamaica analyses the important but neglected role of the attorneys who managed estates, chiefly for absentee proprietors, and assesses their efficiency and impact on Jamaica during slavery and freedom. Meticulous research based on a variety of sources, including the attorneys' letters, plantation papers and slave registration records, provides rich quantitative and literary data describing the attorneys' role, status, range of activities and demographic characteristics. Higman charts both the extent of absentee ownership and the complex structure of the managerial hierarchy that stretched across the Atlantic. Detailed case studies compare the attorney Simon Taylor's management of Golden Grove Estate in the decade before the American Revolution and Isaac Jackson's control of Montpelier in the years immediately follwoing the abolition of slavery."--BOOK JACKET.
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Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850.