Plantation Slavery, Jamaica and Absentee Ownership

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Note to the Reader

Introduction: 'A very considerable fortune': The Burton family, plantation slavery and absentee ownership in Jamaica and Norfolk
1. 'A very sensible good sort of man': The Burton family and the Chiswick Estate, 1700-1788
2. 'Judicious management': Absentee ownership in the late eighteenth century, 1788-1797
3. 'Delightfully situated': A Burton in Jamaica, 1798-1801
4. 'A most unexpected and severe stroke of fate': A new generation and abolition, 1802-1815
5. Lucy Wallen and the people of Chiswick: Amelioration and decline, 1816-1822
6. 'Looking forward to great things being done': A new plan, 1823-1828
7. 'A state of insubordination': Worker unrest and financial crisis, 1829-1834
8. 'What free is this?': The challenges of apprenticeship, 1834-1838
9. 'Ruin must ensue': Freedom and the collapse of Chiswick, 1838-1846
Postscript: 'Chiswick, an abandoned sugar estate in the parish of St Thomas-ye-East'

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• História económica
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Chiswick Estate; Sugar plantation; Slave trade abolition; Enslaved workers; Napoleonic Wars; Emancipation; Apprenticeship system; Management strategies; Caribbean history; Agricultural management; Family dynamics; Colonial economy