A Jamaican Slaveholder and the Age of Revolution
by
Christer Petley
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The sugar planter Simon Taylor, who claimed ownership of over 2,248 enslaved people in Jamaica at the point of his death in 1813, was one of the wealthiest slaveholders ever to have lived in the British empire. Slavery was central to the eighteenth-century empire. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth...