Lady Nugent’s Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801-1805
by Maria Nugent
A prim and rather proper presence, Lady Nugent describes the Jamaican plantocracy, their vast planter meals and sexual gropings, in tones of fastidious disgust. Interestingly, she refers to slaves as ‘sufferers’.
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