Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable
slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management
to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides
unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and
European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the
extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood.
Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years,
describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was
predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of
slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied
on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar
production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual
life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation
of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great
deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the
structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of
human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race,
and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation
system.
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