A Jamaican Plantation : The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 / Michael Craton, James Walvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craton, Michael, author.

Walvin, James, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Worthy Park (Jamaica).

Sugar plantations--Jamaica.

Sugar plantations.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Worthy Park has archives covering much of its three-hundred year history. Using these records, the authors have written the first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate. However, 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."--Publisher's description

Contents:

The coming of the English

Francis Price and the foundation of Worthy Park

Consolidation and the advent of sugar, 1689-1730

Sir Charles Price : Apogee of the Price fortune, 1730-1775

The sugar economy of an Eighteenth-century estate

Slave society of an Eighteenth-century estate

Worthy Park narrowly preserved, 1775-1815

The coming of emancipation, 1815-1834

The losing struggle, 1834-1863

Nadir : Talbots and Calders, 1863-1918

Renaissance : the coming of the Clarkes, 1918-1945

Present and future.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781487596491

1487596499

9781442631687

1442631686

OCLC:

654771191