Slave Population And The Economy In Jamaica 1807 1834

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9766400083

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Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman Pdf

First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a whole. Contains excellent statistical tables and new introduction by author. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 0608133108

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Slave Population and the Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman Pdf

"First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a whole. Contains excellent statistical tables and new introduction by author"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9766400105

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Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman Pdf

Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018511516

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Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850 by B. W. Higman Pdf

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 following the abolition of slavery. These examples provide a wealth of information about plantation life and labour, technology, trade, investments and profits. Higman also makes a unique contribution by investigating and describing several topics previously neglected, including the postal service, the history of accounting and the role of attorneys in the British I

Author : Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401373

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Slavery, Freedom and Gender by Brian L. Moore,B. W. Higman Pdf

A collection of lectures delivered between 1987 and 1998. The book is divided into two sections: slavery and freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and gender.

Author : Higman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521295696

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Slave Population 1807-1834 by Higman Pdf

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004302060

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Montpelier, Jamaica by B. W. Higman Pdf

This detailed study of the life of a Jamaican plantation community during slavery and the post-emancipation period is based on archaeological investigations as well as more traditional documentary sources. The family and household structure of the slave population is analysed and linked to the physical layout of the village. A comprehensive picture of the material culture of the plantation workers is facilitated by sources, and covers everything from foodways to clothing, ornament and architecture.

Author : B. W. Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401136

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Jamaica Surveyed by B. W. Higman Pdf

First published in 1988, this volume contains a representative sample of the large collection of plantation maps and plans in the National Library of Jamaica. It explores the diversity of agricultural activity on the island and the changing patterns of land use during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : Michael Craton,Garry Greenland
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037300865

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Searching for the Invisible Man by Michael Craton,Garry Greenland Pdf

Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, Worthy Park, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system. Michael Craton uses computer techniques in the first of three main parts of his study to provide a dynamic analysis of the demographic, health, and socioeconomic characteristics of the Worthy Park slaves as a whole. The surprising diversity and complex interrelation of the population are underlined in Part Two, consisting of detailed biographies of more than 40 individual members of the plantation's society, including whites and mulattoes as well as black slaves. This is the most ambitious attempt yet made to overcome the stereotyping ignorance of contemporary white writers and the muteness of the slaves themselves. Part Three is perhaps the most original section of the book. After tracing the fate of the population between the emancipation of 1838 and the present day through genealogies and oral interviews, Craton concludes that the predominant feature of plantation life has not been change but continuity, and that the accepted definitions of slavery need considerable modification.

Author : Michael Craton,James Walvin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487596491

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A Jamaican Plantation by Michael Craton,James Walvin Pdf

Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the study reveals, in microcosm, the social and economic development of the area.

Author : N. A. T. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : 9764100295

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Slave Society in the Danish West Indies by N. A. T. Hall Pdf

This volume is an account of the development and destruction of slavery in St Thomas, St John and St Croix, the Caribbean islands which today comprise the US Virgin Islands. The book sees slavery as fundamental to the entire fabric of colonial society, and pays particular attention to the social and political life of the whites and freedmen in interaction with the slaves.

Author : Justin Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107355156

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Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 by Justin Roberts Pdf

This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves' day-to-day work routines were shaped by plantation management strategies that drew on broader pan-Atlantic intellectual and cultural principles. Although scholars often associate the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment with the rise of notions of liberty and human rights and the dismantling of slavery, this book explores the dark side of the Enlightenment for plantation slaves. Many planters increased their slaves' workloads and employed supervisory technologies to increase labor discipline in ways that were consistent with the process of industrialization in Europe. British planters offered alternative visions of progress by embracing restrictions on freedom and seeing increasing labor discipline as central to the project of moral and economic improvement.

Author : Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820348056

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Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 by Colleen A. Vasconcellos Pdf

"This project examines childhood and slavery in Jamaica from 1750, when abolitionist sentiment began to take hold in England, to 1838, when slavery finally ended on the island. By focusing specifically on the changing nature of slave childhood in Jamaica, Vasconcellos examines how childhood and slavery influenced and changed each other throughout this period of study, with the abolitionist movement standing as the main catalyst for change. With each chapter focusing on a different aspect of the slave experience, this monograph explores a childhood that was defined by planter opinion and manipulation, but one that was increasingly affected by the complex processes of slavery, abolition, and eventually emancipation. In doing so, this study reveals a great deal about slave family and childhood from the inside, shining new light on the experiences of slave children and slave families in Jamaica"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rebecca J. Scott,Thomas C. Holt,Frederick Cooper,Aims McGuinness
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822972600

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Societies After Slavery by Rebecca J. Scott,Thomas C. Holt,Frederick Cooper,Aims McGuinness Pdf

One of the massive transformations that took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the movement of millions of people from the status of slaves to that of legally free men, women, and children. Societies after Slavery provides thousands of entries and rich scholarly annotations, making it the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa.

Author : Camillia Cowling,Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado,Diana Paton,Emily West
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429535802

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Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies by Camillia Cowling,Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado,Diana Paton,Emily West Pdf

This book provides critical perspectives on the multiple forms of ‘mothering’ that took place in Atlantic slave societies. Facing repeated child death, mothering was a site of trauma and grief for many, even as slaveholders romanticized enslaved women’s work in caring for slaveholders' children. Examining a wide range of societies including medieval Spain, Brazil, and New England, and including the work of historians based in Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and Britain, this collection breaks new ground in demonstrating the importance of mothering for the perpetuation of slavery, and the complexity of the experience of motherhood in such circumstances. This pathbreaking collection, on all aspects of the experience, politics, and representations of motherhood under Atlantic slavery, analyses societies across the Atlantic world, and will be of interest to those studying the history of slavery as well as those studying mothering throughout history. This book comprises two special issues, originally published in Slavery & Abolition and Women’s History Review.