Slaveholders in Jamaica

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Slaveholders in Jamaica is written by Christer Petley and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317313925 (ISBN 10) and 9781317313922 (ISBN 13).

Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to maintain control over local society and considering how their economic, cultural and military dependency on the colonial metropole meant that they were unable to avert the ending of British slavery.