Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907
Publisher: Microform Academic Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Wakefield, England]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781851172924
Subjects: Sources; History; Economic conditions; Plantation life; Slavery; Sugar trade; Plantation workers; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Economic history; Parham Hill (Antigua : Plantation)
Description: This collection contains records pertaining to the Tudway family's ownership of an Antiguan sugar plantation during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The papers cover the period from the early slave trade to the post-slavery economy. The combination of statistical ledgers and narrative correspondence provides a unique insight into the operation and eventual abolition of the slave trade in the West Indies.
Notes: "Part 17 of the BOA series, British records on the Atlantic world, 1700-1900."
Table of contents: title: Estate accounts; title: Accounts and pay lists for the Old Works, New Works and Parham Lodge; title: Annual plantation and estate accounts; title: Letterbooks and correspondence from England and Antigua; title: Monthly journals and returns of Old Works, New Works, and Parham Lodge; title: Miscellaneous including slave lists.