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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756
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In October of 1756 Sarah Folkes wrote home to her children in
London from Jamaica. Posted on the ship Europa, bound for London,
her letter was one of around 350 that were never delivered due to
an act of war; they remain together today in the National Archives
in London. In Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times Sheryllynne
Haggerty closely reads and analyses this collection of
correspondence, exploring the everyday lives of poor and middling
whites, free people of colour, and the enslaved in
mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica – Britain’s wealthiest colony of
the time – at the start of the Seven Years’ War. This unique
cache of letters brings to life both thoughts and behaviours that
even today appear quite modern: concerns over money, surviving in a
war-torn world, family squabbles, poor physical and mental health,
and a desire to purchase fashionable consumer goods. The letters
also offer a glimpse into the impact of British colonialism on the
island; Jamaica was a violent, cruel, and deadly materialistic
place dominated by slavery from which all free people benefited,
and it is clear that the start of the Seven Years’ War heightened
the precariousness of enslaved peoples’ lives. Jamaica may have
been Britain’s Caribbean jewel, but its society was heterogeneous
and fractured along racial and socioeconomic lines. A rare study of
microhistory, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture
of daily life in Jamaica against the vast backdrop of transatlantic
slavery, war, and the eighteenth-century British Empire.
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Imprint: |
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Sheryllynne Haggerty
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-228-01851-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-228-01851-X |
Barcode: |
9780228018513 |
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