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

Published 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 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Plantations -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century Plantations -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century Plantations -- Jamaica -- Management Plantation owners -- Jamaica -- Economic conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Plantations Plantations -- Management Plantagenwirtschaft SUBJECT Montpelier Plantation (Jamaica) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009018 Subject Jamaica Jamaica -- Montpelier Plantation Jamaika Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781435630949 1435630947

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