Lord Seaforth : : Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor / / Finlay McKichan.
The story of Lord Seaforth, his estates in Scotland and the Caribbean and his governorship of Barbados on the eve of slave trade abolitionThis book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754–1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and pa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Early Days
- 2. Land Management and Clanship in the 1780s and 1790s
- 3. Riches from the Sea?
- 4. Lifestyle, Debts and First Land Sales
- 5. Local and National Politician, 1783–1800
- 6. The Soldier Chief
- 7. Governor and Captain General
- 8. Slave Owner in Berbice
- 9. Seaforth’s Great Matter: the Rights of Enslaved Labourers and Free People of Colour
- 10. Martial Law, a Governor’s Crisis
- 11. Return to Britain, 1806–11
- 12. Shadows Lengthen
- 12. Shadows Lengthen
- Index