Plantations and homes: the material culture of the early nineteenth-century Jamaican elite
Plantations and homes: the material culture of the early nineteenth-century Jamaican elite
This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns, many of them taking up residence in, or at the edges of, urban centres. Lists of personal property found in probate inventories show how planters cultivated separate spheres of activity on the plantations and at their peri-urban homes, putting physical and cultural distance between themselves and the sources of their wealth.
jamaica, slavery, abolition, plantations, British empire
437-457
Petley, Christer
8575b3f5-b694-44a2-a70e-aa715a74381a
1 September 2014
Petley, Christer
8575b3f5-b694-44a2-a70e-aa715a74381a
Petley, Christer
(2014)
Plantations and homes: the material culture of the early nineteenth-century Jamaican elite.
Slavery & Abolition, 35 (3), .
(doi:10.1080/0144039X.2014.944031).
Abstract
This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns, many of them taking up residence in, or at the edges of, urban centres. Lists of personal property found in probate inventories show how planters cultivated separate spheres of activity on the plantations and at their peri-urban homes, putting physical and cultural distance between themselves and the sources of their wealth.
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Keywords:
jamaica, slavery, abolition, plantations, British empire
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/368192
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