Richard C Maguire

Plantation Slavery, Jamaica and Absentee Ownership

The Burtons of Norfolk, 1788-1846

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Produktbeschreibung

An economic history of the Burton family of Norfolk, and their enslaved workers on the Chiswick sugar estate

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781837651245
• ISBN-10: 1837651248
• Artikelnr.: 70702351

Autorenporträt

RICHARD C. MAGUIRE is Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He is the author of Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833 (Boydell Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to the Reader Introduction: 'A
very considerable fortune': The Burton family, plantation slavery and
absentee ownership in Jamaica and Norfolk 1. 'A very sensible good sort of
man': The Burton family and the Chiswick Estate, 1700-1788 2. 'Judicious
management': Absentee ownership in the late eighteenth century, 1788-1797
3. 'Delightfully situated': A Burton in Jamaica, 1798-1801 4. 'A most
unexpected and severe stroke of fate': A new generation and abolition,
1802-1815 5. Lucy Wallen and the people of Chiswick: Amelioration and
decline, 1816-1822 6. 'Looking forward to great things being done': A new
plan, 1823-1828 7. 'A state of insubordination': Worker unrest and
financial crisis, 1829-1834 8. 'What free is this?': The challenges of
apprenticeship, 1834-1838 9. 'Ruin must ensue': Freedom and the collapse of
Chiswick, 1838-1846 Postscript: 'Chiswick, an abandoned sugar estate in the
parish of St Thomas-ye-East' Bibliography