African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
168 p, Contains: Living with the sugar legacy: life on a Jamaican plantation -- Sugar as a commodity -- Turning cane into cash: sugar as big business -- Sugar and strife: Europe and the evolution of the Caribbean sugar industry -- Sugar in the twentieth century. The king is dead! Long live the king! -- Bitter future? Prospects for change.
Benezet,Anthony (Author), Hodgson,Adam (Author), Cropper,James (Author), Cooper,Thomas (Author), Taylor,John (Author), and Winn,T. S. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
unknown
Published:
s.l.: s.n.
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
5 vols.
Notes:
Set contains materials concerning slavery printed between 1774-1845. Contents include: Abstract of the Acts of Parliament for abolishing slave trade and of the orders in council, 1810; Letter to John Bull : to which is added the sketch of a plan for the safe, speedy, and effectual abolition of slavery, 1823; Immediate, not gradual abolition; or, an inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery, 1824; Thoughts on the abolition of slavery ; humbly submitted in a letter to the King, 1824; Report of the debate in the House of Commons, June the 16th, 1825 on Dr. Lushington's motion respecting the deportation of Messrs. L.C. Lecesne and J. Escoffery, two persons of colour, from Jamaica, 1825; Account of a shooting excursion on the mountains near Dromilly Estate, in the parish of Trelawny, and Island of Jamaica, 1825.
