The University of the West Indies Press
Plantation Coffee in Jamaica 1790-1848
Kathleen E. A. Monteith
Plantation Coffee in Jamaica 1790-1848
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Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848 is the first comprehensive history of the Jamaican coffee industry, covering a period of rapid expansion and decline. The primary objective is to examine the structure and performance of the industry and to demonstrate the extent to which it contributed to the diversity of the Jamaican economy and society in this period. All of this is examined within the context of a period characterized by significant structural shifts in the then emerging global economy.

As a work in economic history, the book is based on solid archival research and econometric analysis. Kathleen E.A. Monteith examines the changing levels of production, trade, productivity, and profitability of the industry and discusses the people involved in the industry, both free and enslaved. A demographic profile of the coffee planters and their familial relationships is established. The work experience of the enslaved men, women and children in the coffee industry, their organization, the nature of their works and their resistance to enslavement are also discussed. The clash of interests between the former enslaved people and coffee planters with respect to labour availability in the industry in the immediate post-slavery period are discussed also. Throughout the book, wherever possible, comparisons are made with other sectors of the Jamaican economy, especially with the sugar industry. Differences are explained in terms of environment, scale and the nature of production.

Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848 contributes fresh material and interrogates data in systematic ways not previously undertaken by scholars in this area. Strikingly original are the sections dealing with the backgrounds of the coffee planters, drawing on sources only recently available for exploitation, notably the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership database, family history and genealogical websites, and the sections dealing with profitability. This book compares well with other works in Caribbean history published at this level of scholarship. It has no immediate rivals in its specific field.

Language
English
ISBN
9789766407285
Frontispiece
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Tables
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. PARISH DISTRIBUTION AND SIZE OF PROPERTIES
2. THE COFFEE PLANTERS
3. PLANTING AND PROCESSING
4. LABOUR MANAGEMENT, WORK REGIMEN AND RESISTANCE
5. PROFITABILITY AND DECLINE
6. EMANCIPATION AND LABOUR
CONCLUSION: JAMAICAN COFFEE IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION
APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1. PARISH DISTRIBUTION OF COFFEE-PRODUCING PROPERTIES IN JAMAICA, 1799 AND 1836
APPENDIX 2. FREQUENCY ACREAGE OF COFFEE PROPERTIES, 1832
APPENDIX 3. FREQUENCY NUMBER OF ENSLAVED WORKERS ON COFFEE PROPERTIES, 1818 AND 1832
APPENDIX 4. ENSLAVED FEMALES ASSIGNED TO FIELD WORK ON MARYLAND PLANTATION, ST ANDREW, 1818
APPENDIX 5. ABANDONED COFFEE PLANTATIONS, 1832–1848
APPENDIX 6. COFFEE PLANTATIONS IN PRODUCTION IN JAMAICA, 1899
NOTES
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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