Searching for the invisible man : slaves and plantation life in Jamaica / Michael Craton, with the assistance of Garry Greenland.
Series: ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1978.Description: xxiii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0674796292
- 9780674796294
- Slavery -- Jamaica
- Slavery -- Jamaica -- Biography
- Worthy Park (Jamaica)
- African Continental Ancestry Group -- history
- Race Relations -- history
- Esclavage -- Jama ique
- Esclavage -- Jama ique -- Biographies
- Plantations, Vie dans les -- Jama ique -- Worthy Park
- Worthy Park, Jama ique
- Slavery
- Jamaica
- Sklaverei
- Bev olkerung
- Jamaika
- Esclavage -- Jama ique
- Esclavage -- Jama ique -- Biographies
- Geschichte 1600-1900
- Geschichte 1600-1900
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- HT1096 .C7
- 83.33
- 89.91
- cci1icc
- NW 8295
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Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: Worthy Park and its context, 1670-1975 -- Part one: The slave population at large. The population before 1783 -- Demographic patterns, 1783-1838 -- Mortality, fertility, life expectancy, 1783-1838 -- Death, disease, medicine, 1783-1838 -- Economics, employment, social cohesion, 1783-1838 -- Part two: Individuals in slave society: selected biographies. Bunga-men: Six Africans -- Conformists: Ten ordinary slaves -- Specialists: Five slave craftsmen -- Accommodators: Five patterns of miscegenation -- Resisters: Five slave nonconformists -- Backra: Three plantation whites -- Part three: The sons of slavery. The transition to free wage labor, 1834-1846 -- Continuities: Worthy Park's modern workers -- The rope unraveled and respliced: The evidence of genealogy -- From house slave to middle class: The descendants of John Price Nash -- From field slave to peasant-proletarian: The descendants of Biddy and Nelson -- Coda and conclusion: The seamless cloth -- Appendixes: The slave data and its deficiencies -- The computer programs -- A doctor's views on childbirth, infant mortality, and the general health of his slave charges, 1788 -- Medicine at Worthy Park, 1824.
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