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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Introduction ‘Hot as Hell, and as Wicked as the Devil’
Part One: The Pioneers
1. White Gold, 1642
2. The First Settlements, 1605–41
3. The Sugar Revolution: ‘So Noble an Undertaking’
4. The Sugar Revolution: ‘Most inhuman and barbarous persons’
5. The Plantation: Masters and Slaves
6. The English Civil War in Barbados
7. The Plantation: Life and Death
8. Cromwell’s ‘Western Design’: Disaster in Hispaniola
9. The Invasion of Jamaica
Part Two: The Grandees
10. The Restoration
11. Expansion, War and the Rise of the Beckfords
12. ‘All slaves are enemies’
13. The Cousins Henry Drax and Christopher Codrington
14. God’s Vengeance
15. The Planter at War: Codrington in the Leeward Islands
16. The French Invasion of Jamaica
17. Codrington the Younger in the West Indies
18. The Murder of Daniel Parke
19. The Beckfords: The Next Generation
20. Piracy and Rum
21. The Maroon War in Jamaica and the War of Jenkins’s Ear
22. Barbados, the ‘Civilised Isle’
23. Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica: ‘Tonight very lonely and melancholy again’
24. Jamaica: Rich and Poor
25. The Sugar Lobby
Part Three: The Inheritors
26. Luxury and Debt
27. The War Against America
28. The West Indian ‘Nabobs’: Absenteeism, Decadence and Decline
29. Peace and Freedom
Acknowledgements
Maps
Chronology
Simplified Family Trees
Picture Sources
Epilogue The Sins of the Fathers
Source Notes
Select Bibliography
Footnotes
By the Same Author
Imprint
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