Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805

Personal Diary Of Lady Nugent, Wife Of The Governor Of Jamaica, The Most Important Of The Highly Prized British Sugar Colonies, During A Critical Period In The Napoleonic War. Entries, Mainly Concerned With Life In The Governor's Household, Convey Fresh Impressions Of Life At The Centre Of A Slave-owning Colonial Society. Introduction : Maria Nugent -- The Shadow Of Saint-domingue -- Tribulations Of A Lieutenant-governor -- Notes On A Planter Society -- Chronology Of The Nugents' Residence In Jamaica -- Foreword -- Maria Nugent's Journal : I. April To December, 1801 -- Ii. January To December, 1802 -- Iii. January To December, 1803 -- Iv. January, 1804 To September 2, 1805 -- V. In England, September 3, 1805 To May 29, 1811 -- Appendix : A. A Letter To General Nugent From The Mosquito Indians -- B. Two Letters From Maria Nugent To Admiral Duckworth -- C. Some King's House Bills. Edited By Philip Wright ; With A Foreword By Verene A. Shepherd. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Lady Nugent's husband was governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies, during a critical period of the Napoleonic Wars. Her entertaining personal diary conveys fresh impressions of life among the slave-owning colonial gentry, and a distinguished American scholar has called it "an utterly inimitable and imperishable picture of planter society."The Journal was first published by the Institute of Jamaica in 1907 and a fourth (revised) edition was issued in 1966, and has been out of print for decades. This paperback reprint is designed for those scholars and general readers who have been requesting copies for years Every colonial Governor had the task of inducing the local legislature to vote the measures which he recommended to them in accordance with his instructions from London.