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Slaveholders in Jamaica: colonial society and culture during the era of abolition

Slaveholders in Jamaica: colonial society and culture during the era of abolition
Slaveholders in Jamaica: colonial society and culture during the era of abolition
The Atlantic slave economy was crucial to Britain’s colonial enterprise during the eighteenth century but, after the 1780s, abolitionist campaigns helped to undermine the influence and power of British slaveholders. As inhabitants of the largest and most lucrative of the sugar islands in the British empire, slaveholders in Jamaica found themselves at the centre of a transatlantic conflict over the future of slavery, facing vehement political opposition from reformers in the metropole and encountering new kinds of local challenges. Slaveholders in Jamaica combines social and cultural history to explore the composition, social relations and cultural attitudes of the Jamaican slaveholding class during this era. It looks at how white colonists tried to maintain control over Jamaican society and provides a detailed account of their violent and increasingly radical efforts to defend the advantages that they enjoyed as slaveholding white men.
This book is based on extensive research in British and Caribbean archives. It sheds valuable new light on the struggle for emancipation in the British empire and on the slaveholders who tried to maintain and defend a system of exploitation that has cast an enduring shadow over the modern world.
9781851969906
Pickering & Chatto
Petley, Christer
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Petley, Christer
8575b3f5-b694-44a2-a70e-aa715a74381a

Petley, Christer (2009) Slaveholders in Jamaica: colonial society and culture during the era of abolition (Empires in Perspective), London, UK. Pickering & Chatto, 224pp.

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The Atlantic slave economy was crucial to Britain’s colonial enterprise during the eighteenth century but, after the 1780s, abolitionist campaigns helped to undermine the influence and power of British slaveholders. As inhabitants of the largest and most lucrative of the sugar islands in the British empire, slaveholders in Jamaica found themselves at the centre of a transatlantic conflict over the future of slavery, facing vehement political opposition from reformers in the metropole and encountering new kinds of local challenges. Slaveholders in Jamaica combines social and cultural history to explore the composition, social relations and cultural attitudes of the Jamaican slaveholding class during this era. It looks at how white colonists tried to maintain control over Jamaican society and provides a detailed account of their violent and increasingly radical efforts to defend the advantages that they enjoyed as slaveholding white men.
This book is based on extensive research in British and Caribbean archives. It sheds valuable new light on the struggle for emancipation in the British empire and on the slaveholders who tried to maintain and defend a system of exploitation that has cast an enduring shadow over the modern world.

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Published date: August 2009
Organisations: History

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Local EPrints ID: 68713
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/68713
ISBN: 9781851969906
PURE UUID: 4b5cdfa1-82dc-44e7-b7f9-b478c4cdb338
ORCID for Christer Petley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0616-1871

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Date deposited: 22 Sep 2009
Last modified: 23 Jul 2022 01:58

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