The Jamaica Planter's Guide: Or, A System for Planting and Managing a Sugar Estate or Other Plantations in that Island, and Throughout the British West Indies in General - Brossura

Roughley, Thomas

 
9781108024303: The Jamaica Planter's Guide: Or, A System for Planting and Managing a Sugar Estate or Other Plantations in that Island, and Throughout the British West Indies in General

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This 1823 work is an important source for the study of the slave economy and agriculture in the West Indies.

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This 1823 volume on the management of Jamaican sugar plantations is an important primary source for the study of the slave economy and agricultural methods in the West Indies. It sets out in great detail all aspects of the ideal estate, the work and the people involved.

Contenuti

1. Of plantation attorney or agents; 2. The treatment of slaves; 3. Choice and treatment of stock; 4. The works and overseer's house; 5. Planting and cultivation of the sugar-cane, &c.; 6. Cutting of sugar-canes, and manufacturing sugar; 7. Making and distilling of rum; 8. Planting and care of provisions.

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