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White Fury - A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
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White Fury - A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
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The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248
enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was
one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the
British empire. Slavery was central to the eighteenth-century
empire. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries,
hundreds of thousands of enslaved people were brought from Africa
to the Caribbean to toil and die within the brutal slave regime of
the region, most of them destined for a life of labour on large
sugar plantations. Their forced labour provided the basis for the
immense fortunes of plantation owners like Taylor; it also produced
wealth that poured into Britain. However, a tumultuous period that
saw the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, as well as the
rise of the abolitionist movement, witnessed new attacks on slavery
and challenged the power of a once-confident slaveholder elite. In
White Fury, Christer Petley uses Taylor's rich and expressive
letters to allow us an intimate glimpse into the aspirations and
frustrations of a wealthy and powerful British slaveholder during
the Age of Revolution. The letters provide a fascinating insight
into the merciless machinery and unpredictable hazards of the
Jamaican plantation world; into the ambitions of planters who used
the great wealth they extracted from Jamaica to join the ranks of
the British elite; and into the impact of wars, revolutions, and
fierce political struggles that led, eventually, to the reform of
the exploitative slave system that Taylor had helped build . . .
and which he defended right up until the last weak scratches of his
pen.
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