A Jamaican Plantation. The history of Worthy Park, 1670-1970
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- Author(s) Craton, Michael, & James Walvin
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1970
- Pages 344pp; illus
- Publisher W H Allen
- Place Published London
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- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly account providing a case study of the management and output of a Jamaican plantation business on its 300th anniversary, focusing on sugar production to the end of the 19th century and subsequent revival through supplementary activities. Has chapters: 'The coming of the English'; 'Francis Price sand the foundation of Worthy Park'; 'Consolidation and the advent of sugar, 1689-1730'; 'Sir Charles Price - apogee of the Price fortune, 1730-75'; 'The sugar economy of an eighteenth century estate'; 'Slave society on an eighteenth century estate'; 'Worthy Park narrowly preserved, 1775-1815'; 'The coming of emancipation, 1815-34'; 'The losing struggle, 1834-63'; 'Nadir - Talbots and Calders, 1863-1918'; 'Renaissance - the coming of the Clarkes, 1918-45'; 'Present and future'. Includes family tree of Price family