Title: Lady Nugent's journal of her residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805
Description: Personal diary of Lady Nugent, wife of the Governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies, during a critical period in the Napoleonic War. Entries, mainly concerned with life in the Governor's household, convey fresh impressions of life at the centre of a slave-owning colonial society.
Subjects: Description and travel, Diaries, Social conditions, Jamaica, history, Descriptions et voyages, HISTORY, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Travel, Regions & Countries - Americas, History & Archaeology, Latin America, Nugent, Maria, Lady, 1771?-1834
Places: Jamaica
People: Maria Nugent Lady (1771?-1834)
Time periods: 19th century