Lord Seaforth : highland landowner, Caribbean governor /

"This book is a detailed thematic biography of the Highland landowner Francis Humberston Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth (1754-1815). Despite being profoundly deaf and partially mute from a young age, Lord Seaforth went on to become a proprietor of a large estate who strove to protect his small tenant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKichan, Finlay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Mackenzie, Francis Humberton, > Lord Seaforth, > 1754-1815.
Landowners > Scotland > Biography.
Legislators > Scotland > Biography.
Plantation owners > Guyana > Berbice.
Governors > Guyana > Berbice.
Slavery > Guyana > Berbice.
Propriétaires fonciers > Écosse > Biographies.
Propriétaires de plantations > Guyana > Berbice.
Gouverneurs > Guyana > Berbice.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Governors
Landowners
Legislators
Plantation owners
Slavery
Guyana > Berbice
Scotland
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early days
  • Land management and clanship in the 1780s and 1790s
  • Riches from the sea?
  • Lifestyle, debts and first land sales
  • Local and national politician, 1783-1800
  • The soldier chief
  • Governor and Captain General
  • Slave owner in Berbice
  • Seaforth's great matter : the rights of enslaved labourers and free people of colour
  • Martial law, a Governor's crisis
  • Return to Britain, 1806-11
  • Shadows lengthen.

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