Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica Book

Prologue: Worthy Park and Its Context, 1670-1975

Part 1: The Slave Population at Large

1. The Population before 1783

2. Demographic Patterns, 1783-1838

3. Mortality, Fertility, Life Expectancy, 1783-1838

4. Death, Disease, Medicine, 1783-1838

5. Economics, Employment, Social Cohesion, 1783-1838

Part 2: Individuals in Slave Society, Selected Biographies

Introduction

6. Bunga—Men: Six Africans

7. Conformists: Ten Ordinary Slaves

8. Specialists: Five Slave Craftsmen

9. Accommodators: Five Patterns of Miscegenation

10. Resisters: Five Slave Nonconformists

11. Backra: Three Plantation Whites

Part 3: The Sons of Slavery

12. The Transition to Free Wage Labor, 1834-1846

13. Continuities: Worthy Park's Modern Workers

14. The Rope Unraveled and Respliced: The Evidence of Genealogy

15. From House Slave to Middle Class: The Descendants of John Price Nash

16. From Field Slave to Peasant-Proletarian: The Descendants of Biddy and Nelson

17. Coda and Conclusion: The Seamless Cloth

Appendixes

A. The Slave Data and Its Deficiencies

B. The Computer Programs

C. A Doctor's Views on Childbirth, Infant Mortality, and the General Health of His Slave Charges, 1788

D. Medicine at Worthy Park, 1824

Notes