Spanning more than thirty-five years, from before his arrival in Jamaica in 1750 through his death in 1786, the archive comprises some 92 volumes of diaries and notebooks. A slave owner, Thistlewood used his diaries to document his daily experiences as a planter over three decades. These 37 volumes, arranged by year, leave a detailed portrait of the racial, sexual, economic, and other realities of plantation life in Jamaica in the mid-eighteenth century.
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