Böcker av Verene Shepherd

Broadens the economic and social history of Jamaica by turning the spotlight on those involved in raising livestock rather than sugar cane in colonial Jamaica. Devoted primarily to the slavery era, the book examines the evolution and expansion of the pen-keeping industry, the role and status of the pen-keepers and the experiences of enslaved labourers on pens.

The plantation economy model has often masked the social and economic diversification of Caribbean society that existed in the age of sugar. Equally veiled are the gender, class and ethnic heterogeniety of the slave-holding class. This volume aims to re-open discourse on this society.