That was a dangerous risk – but in Jamaica, some enslaved Africans ... enslaved workforce in the Caribbean was employed on sugar cane plantations. The reality of their working lives were very ...

This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

Irish men, women and children were forced to work on sugar and tobacco plantations in the newly colonized Barbados, Jamaica and the smaller Caribbean islands including St Kitts, Nevis, Antigua and ...

cotton and sugar. On the islands that the British had captured such as Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, Barbados and Jamaica, settlers quickly cleared land to create plantations. The indigenous ...

Jamaica may offer many potential sites. Britain took Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655, and after a boom in piracy, sugar plantations worked by enslaved Africans became central to the island’s ...