{"id":790,"date":"2014-11-18T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T14:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/?p=790"},"modified":"2014-11-18T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T14:24:33","slug":"plantations-and-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/11\/18\/plantations-and-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Plantations and Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns, many of them taking up residence in, or at the edges of, urban centres. Lists of personal property found in probate inventories show how planters cultivated separate spheres of activity on the plantations and at their peri-urban homes, putting physical and cultural distance between themselves and the sources of their wealth.<\/em> <a title=\"Plantations and Homes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/0144039X.2014.944031#.VGtWGfmsV7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #373737\">Full text of accepted manuscript:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/373\/2014\/11\/Petley-Epr-Plantations-and-Homes.pdf\">Petley &#8211; Plantations and Homes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/11\/18\/plantations-and-homes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}