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Author Higman, B. W., 1943-

Title Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850 : capital and control in a colonial economy / B.W. Higman.

Publication Info. Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press ; Norman, Okla. : Distributed by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Summary "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."--Jacket.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Plantations -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century.
Plantations.
Jamaica.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Plantations -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Plantations -- Jamaica -- Management.
Management.
Plantation owners -- Jamaica -- Economic conditions.
Plantation owners.
Economic conditions.
Montpelier Plantation (Jamaica)
Chronological Term Geschichte 1750-1850.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Function TTNB -- 2005.
Other Form: Print version: Higman, B.W., 1943- Plantation Jamaica, 1750-1850. Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press ; Norman, Okla. : Distributed by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2005 9766401659 9789766401658 (OCoLC)62868347
ISBN 9781435630949 (electronic book)
1435630947 (electronic book)
9766401659
9789766401658