Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean by Christer Petley Stephan Lenik

Author:Christer Petley, Stephan Lenik [Christer Petley, Stephan Lenik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367029869
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

[1]Samuel Rollstone to William Fitzherbert, July 12, 1756, E20511, Fitzherbert Papers, Barbados Department of Archives.

[2]For more on Turner’s Hall, see Justin Roberts, ‘Uncertain Business: A Case Study of Barbadian Plantation Management, 1770–1793’, Slavery & Abolition 32, no. 2 (June 2011): 247–68.

[3]By 1780, there were four men assigned to watch these woods and the plantains; Turner’s Hall Slave List, 1780, E20753; Samuel Rollstone to William Fitzherbert, July 12, 1756, E20511, Fitzherbert Papers.

[4]Samuel Rollstone to William Fitzherbert, July 12, 1756, E20511, Fitzherbert Papers.

[5]Ibid.

[6]Turner’s Hall Financial Abstract, 1781, E 20691, Fitzherbert Papers.

[7]See note 4 above.

[8]Ibid.

[9]Important examples of the growing body of scholarship that attempts to move beyond the resistance paradigm include William Dusinberre, Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2004). For an excellent recent example, see Randy M. Browne, ‘Surviving Slavery: Politics, Power, and Authority in the British Caribbean, 1807–1834’, (PhD diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2012).

[10]See for example Thomas Barritt to Nathaniel Phillips, April 20, 1791, MS 8372, Slebech Papers, National Library of Wales.

[11]Michael Craton, ‘Jamaican Slavery’, in Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies, eds. Stanley Engerman and Eugene Genovese (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975), 249–84; Jerome Handler and Frederick W. Lange, Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Historical and Archaeological Investigation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978); B.W. Higman, ‘Economic and Social Development of the British West Indies from Settlement to ca. 1850’, in The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 1, The Colonial Era, eds. Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 317; David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (New York: Cambridge University Press), 193–223; J.R. Ward, British West Indian Slavery, 1750–1834: The Process of Amelioration (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

[12]Newton Slave List, 1782, MS 523/282, Newton Family Papers, Senate House Library, University of London Archives; Thomas Roughley, The Jamaica Planter’s Guide: Or, a System for Planting and Managing a Sugar Estate Or Other Plantations in that Island, and Throughout the British West Indies in General (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 [1823]), 88, 89, 99.

[13]See ‘Report on the [Newton] Negroes Where Born, Ages, Families, Employments, Sexes’, July 1796, MS 523/288, Newton Family Papers; see also Drax Hall Slave List, May 8, 1820, Z9/11/8, Barbados Department of Archives.

[14]Roughley Jamaica Planter’s Guide, 80.

[15]Thomas Barritt, Pleasant Hill, Jamaica, to Nathaniel Phillips, March 29, 1790, MS 8355, Slebech Papers

[16]Ibid.

[17]Thomas Thistlewood Diary, March 18, 1751, Monson 31/2, Thomas Thistlewood Papers, Lincoln County Record Office.

[18]Gordon Turnbull, Letters to a Young Planter; or, Observations on the Management of a Sugar Plantation (London, 1785), 42.

[19]Bryan Edwards, The History Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies in the West Indies, 2 vols (Dublin: Luke White, 1793), 2:135.

[20]William Dickson, Letters on Slavery: To Which are Added, Addresses to the Whites, and to the Free Negroes of Barbadoes; and Accounts of some Negroes Eminent for their Virtues and Abilities, new ed.

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