Slaveholders in Jamaica
Subtitle: Colonial Society and Culture During the Era of Abolition
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781851969906
Subjects: Slaveholders; Slavery, jamaica; Jamaica, social conditions
Description: At the end of the 18th century the Jamaican slave economy was crucial to Britain's lucrative colonial enterprise. This book looks at the lives of British West Indian slaveholders and their efforts to defend and justify an institution that has cast a dark shadow over modern notions of race, cultural authority and freedom.