White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution

White Fury: A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution
ISBN-10
0198791631
ISBN-13
9780198791638
Category
Biography
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2018
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Christer Petley

Description

La 4e de la jaquette indique : "The story of the struggle over slavery in the British empire - as told through the rich, expressive, and frequently shocking letters of one of the wealthiest British slaveholders ever to have lived."

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