TY - BOOK AU - Renton,Alex TI - Blood legacy: reckoning with a family's story of slavery SN - 9781786898869 U1 - 306.362 PY - 2021/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Canongate KW - Fergusson of Kilkerran family. KW - Hunter Blair family. KW - Rozelle plantation (Jamaica) KW - Slavery KW - Caribbean Area KW - History KW - Enslaved persons KW - Great Britain KW - Genealogy KW - Piracy KW - United States KW - Jamaica N1 - 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? ER -