This lecture was based on the 14,000 page diary of an overseer and then plantation owner in western Jamaica. Compiled from 1750 to 1786, it is regarded as one of the most important documents depicting the brutal realities of the lives of black slaves in the Caribbean. The content ranges in remarkable detail across work, health, death, slave rebellion, sex and punishment as well as many other issues.
It is a fact that the slavemaster Thomas Thistlewood regarded himself , and was regarded as a dedicated and valid member of the Enlightenment without question by his peers even though he treated the slaves under his control as little more than labouring , exploitable commodities.
In this video Tom discusses Scotlands historical perceptions in the creation of Empire and its functioning.
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