In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86
- ISBN-10
- 9766400660
- ISBN-13
- 9789766400668
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 321
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of West Indies Press
- Authors
- Douglas Hall, Thomas Thistlewood
Description
Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786) was a British estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica. He arrived in Jamaica, the most important of the British sugar colonies in 1750, when he was 29 years old. He became the overseer or manager of the Egypt sugar plantation near the small port of Savanna la Mar. He stayed in Jamaica until his death in 1786. He wrote a diary, which eventually ran to some 10,000 pages, and this diary became an important historical document on slavery and history of Jamaica.
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