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JOURNAL OF A WEST INDIA PROPRIETOR - M G LEWIS ...

This work provides a valuable insight into plantation life in Jamaica in the early 1800s.
Englishman Matthew Gregory Lewis wrote it during his first journey to his plantations in
Jamaica in 1817. It was not published in London until 1834  nearly two decades after being
written  during the peak of the international abolitionist movement. Lewis was a slave-owner
who took over two large plantations owned by his family  and he would visit it twice. During
this trip  he examined the living and working circumstances of the enslaved people on his
plantations. His informal record  the Journal of a West India Proprietor  offers a vivid report
on plantation life from the standpoint of a 'liberal' enslaver. He was an acute observer of
everything he saw  and nothing escaped his watch. He has also included a few folk tales told by
the enslaved ones. In addition to this work  he was a novelist and best known as the author of
the famous gothic novel The Monk.

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