Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica 1807-1834

by Higman (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $48.53

  First published in 1976 (see HLAS 40:2983), work is a masterful analysis of the dynamics of slave labor in the economic growth of early-19th-century Jamaica. Discusses various characteristics of slave and free-colored population including mortality, birth rates, manumission, distribution, and structure, as well as jobs performed on island as a who