A Jamaican Plantation
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A Jamaican Plantation

The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970

  1. 378 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Jamaican Plantation

The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970

About this book

The first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate; this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the study reveals, in microcosm, the social and economic development of the area.

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Table of contents

  1. Jamaican Plantation The history of Worthy Park, 1670-1970
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. CHAPTER ONE. The Coming of the English
  7. CHAPTER TWO. Francis Price and the Foundation of Worthy Park
  8. CHAPTER THREE. Consolidation and the Advent of Sugar, 1689-1730
  9. CHAPTER FOUR. Sir Charles Price: Apogée of the Price Fortune, 1730-1775
  10. CHAPTER FIVE. The Sugar Economy of An Eighteenth-Century Estate
  11. CHAPTER SIX. Slave Society on an Eighteenth-Century Estate
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN. Worthy Park Narrowly Preserved, 1775-1815
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT. The Coming of Emancipation, 1815-1834
  14. CHAPTER NINE. The Losing Struggle, 1834-1863
  15. CHAPTER TEN. Nadir: Talbots and Calders, 1863-1918
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Renaissance: The Coming of the Clarkes, 1918-1945
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE. Present and Future
  18. Appendix One
  19. Appendix Two
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index