Jamaica in 1850: or, The Effects of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony
ISBN: 9780252073274
$74.00
9780252073274
Bigelow shows that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system. This book also highlights that although large plantations languished, many former slaves worked tirelessly and became successful small-scale landowners.