First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica ... 4 “Dreadful Idlers” in the ...
Discipline was maintained by ‘slave drivers’ – enslaved workers ... enslaved workforce in the Caribbean was employed on sugar cane plantations. The reality of their working lives were ...
Researchers met with Prime Minister Gaston A. Browne and Governor General Rodney E.L. Williams of Antigua and Barbuda on ...
Sugar cane grows in warm climates ... because they were able to shift from the actual plantation economy … to financing the slave trade to financing other plantations. And eventually they ...