 | Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times : Living the British Empire in Jamaica 1756 A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire. Haggerty Sheryllynne : Sheryllynne Haggerty is honorary research fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. Sheryllynne Haggerty is honorary research fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. |
