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
- Jamaican Plantation The history of Worthy Park, 1670-1970
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. The Coming of the English
- CHAPTER TWO. Francis Price and the Foundation of Worthy Park
- CHAPTER THREE. Consolidation and the Advent of Sugar, 1689-1730
- CHAPTER FOUR. Sir Charles Price: Apogée of the Price Fortune, 1730-1775
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Sugar Economy of An Eighteenth-Century Estate
- CHAPTER SIX. Slave Society on an Eighteenth-Century Estate
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Worthy Park Narrowly Preserved, 1775-1815
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Coming of Emancipation, 1815-1834
- CHAPTER NINE. The Losing Struggle, 1834-1863
- CHAPTER TEN. Nadir: Talbots and Calders, 1863-1918
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Renaissance: The Coming of the Clarkes, 1918-1945
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Present and Future
- Appendix One
- Appendix Two
- Bibliography
- Index
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