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https://archive.org/details/searching4theinvisible
Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica by Michael Craton; Garry Greenland
Topics
#slavery, #Jamaica, #plantations, #WorthyPark, #genealogy, #oralhistory, #history, #sugarplantations, #blackchattelslavery“Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, Worthy Park, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The ‘Invisible Man’ of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system.”
missing part divider pages (51-52, 189-190, 273, 385-386)