Thomas Thistlewood
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Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786) was a British estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica. He wrote a diary, which eventually ran to some 10,000 pages, and this diary became an important historical document on slavery and history of Jamaica.
Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England, in 1750. He stayed in Jamaica until his death in 1786. He became the overseer or manager of the Egypt sugar plantation near the small port of Savanna la Mar.
His diary is a unique record of his activities, which reflect a rich and exciting chronicle of plantation life - its people, social life, agricultural techniques, medicinal remedies, and relations between slaves and owners.
[edit] References
- Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World, University of North Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8078-5525-1
- Douglas Hall, In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86, Macmillan, 1999, ISBN 0-333-48030-9
[edit] See also
- Tacky Rebellion
[edit] External links
- An introduction to Thomas Thistlewood’s journal
- Thomas Thistlewood on 'Sales and branding'
- Masters of Their Universe by Ira Berlin, The Nation, 2004, article
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