Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807-1835

ISBN-13: 9789766400088 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str.

B. W. Higman

Opis

First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a who