Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

by Trevor Burnard

Book Overview

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.

Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855251
• ISBN13: 9780807855256
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"