A Jamaican Plantation : : The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 /

A Jamaican Plantation : : The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 / / Michael Craton, James Walvin.

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 rev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Craton, Michael,
Walvin, James,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1970
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Jamaican Plantation The history of Worthy Park, 1670-1970
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Coming of the English
  • CHAPTER TWO. Francis Price and the Foundation of Worthy Park
  • CHAPTER THREE. Consolidation and the Advent of Sugar, 1689-1730
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Sir Charles Price: Apogée of the Price Fortune, 1730-1775
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Sugar Economy of An Eighteenth-Century Estate
  • CHAPTER SIX. Slave Society on an Eighteenth-Century Estate
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Worthy Park Narrowly Preserved, 1775-1815
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Coming of Emancipation, 1815-1834
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Losing Struggle, 1834-1863
  • CHAPTER TEN. Nadir: Talbots and Calders, 1863-1918
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Renaissance: The Coming of the Clarkes, 1918-1945
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. Present and Future
  • Appendix One
  • Appendix Two
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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