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Maps | p. vii |
Simplified Family Trees | p. xii |
Chronology | p. xv |
Picture Sources | p. xviii |
Introduction 'Hot as Hell, and as Wicked as the Devil' | p. 1 |
The Pioneers | |
White Gold, 1642 | p. 9 |
The First Settlements, 1605-41 | p. 14 |
The Sugar Revolution: 'So Noble an Undertaking' | p. 32 |
The Sugar Revolution: 'Most inhuman and barbarous persons' | p. 44 |
The Plantation: Masters and Slaves | p. 52 |
The English Civil War in Barbados | p. 67 |
The Plantation: Life and Death | p. 76 |
Cromwell's 'Western Design': Disaster in Hispaniola | p. 88 |
The Invasion of Jamaica | p. 97 |
The Grandees | |
The Restoration | p. 115 |
Expansion, War and the Rise of the Beckfords | p. 132 |
'All slaves are enemies' | p. 147 |
The Cousins Henry Drax and Christopher Codrington | p. 161 |
God's Vengeance | p. 169 |
The Planter at War: Codrington in the Leeward Islands | p. 180 |
The French Invasion of Jamaica | p. 192 |
Codrington the Younger in the West Indies | p. 197 |
The Murder of Daniel Parke | p. 211 |
The Beckfords: The Next Generation | p. 219 |
Piracy and Rum | p. 234 |
The Maroon War in Jamaica and the War of Jenkins's Ear | p. 248 |
Barbados, the 'Civilised Isle' | p. 259 |
Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica: 'Tonight very lonely and melancholy again' | p. 270 |
Jamaica: Rich and Poor | p. 285 |
The Sugar Lobby | p. 296 |
The Inheritors | |
Luxury and Debt | p. 311 |
The War Against America | p. 325 |
The West Indian 'Nabobs': Absenteeism, Decadence and Decline | p. 333 |
Peace and Freedom | p. 345 |
Epilogue The Sins of the Fathers | p. 359 |
Source Notes | p. 365 |
Select Bibliography | p. 417 |
Acknowledgements | p. 433 |
Index | p. 435 |
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