Renton, Alex, 1961-

Blood legacy : reckoning with a family's story of slavery / Alex Renton. - xi, 388 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table

In the family papers -- I. Tobago, 1772-1785 -- A prospect of acquiring a fortune -- People as property -- Many ways to die : pirates, famine, and the flux -- Tobago today -- II. Jamaica, 1769-1875 -- A fine property in Jamaica : Rozelle -- Enlightenment gentlemen and runaway slaves -- 'Goatish embraces' and the breeding of humans -- The money and the pox -- Slavery modernised -- The end of the British trade -- Decline, disgust and death -- Cleansing the money -- Emancipation at a price -- Freedom's debt -- Betrayal : absentee landlords and planter-magistrates -- The Empire strikes back -- Jamaica today -- Appendix : what happened next? And what to do?

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Fergusson of Kilkerran family.
Hunter Blair family.


Rozelle plantation (Jamaica)


Slavery--History.--Caribbean Area
Enslaved persons--Genealogy--Great Britain
Piracy--History--United States.


Jamaica--History.

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