Plantation Jamaica analyses the important but neglected role of the attorneys who managed estates, chiefly for absentee proprietors, and assesses their efficien

First published in 1988, this volume contains a representative sample of the large collection of plantation maps and plans in the National Library of Jamaica. I

This beautifully illustrated book by one of the Caribbean's preeminent historians sheds new light on food and cultural practices in Jamaica from the time of the

Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of s

This detailed study of the life of a Jamaican plantation community during slavery and the post-emancipation period is based on archaeological investigations as