Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica

by Michael Craton

Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, Worthy Park, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system.

Michael Craton uses computer techniques in the first of three main parts of his study to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674796292
• ISBN13: 9780674796294
• Release Date: May 1978
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.6" x 11.3"