Lord Seaforth : Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor /

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The story of Lord Seaforth, his estates in Scotland and the Caribbean and his governorship of Barbados on the eve of slave trade abolitionThis book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754-1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and pa...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKichan, Finlay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Governors > Barbados > Biography.
Governors > Guyana > Berbice.
Landowners > Scotland > Biography.
Legislators > Scotland > Biography.
Plantation owners > Guyana > Berbice > Biography.
Plantation owners > Guyana > Berbice.
Slavery > Guyana > Berbice.
Scottish Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Early Days
  • 2. Land Management and Clanship in the 1780s and 1790s
  • 3. Riches from the Sea?
  • 4. Lifestyle, Debts and First Land Sales
  • 5. Local and National Politician, 1783-1800
  • 6. The Soldier Chief
  • 7. Governor and Captain General
  • 8. Slave Owner in Berbice
  • 9. Seaforth's Great Matter: the Rights of Enslaved Labourers and Free People of Colour
  • 10. Martial Law, a Governor's Crisis
  • 11. Return to Britain, 1806-11
  • 12. Shadows Lengthen
  • 12. Shadows Lengthen
  • Index

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