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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation (30 Nov 2005)
  • ISBN-10: 1402189443
  • ISBN-13: 978-1402189449
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.2 x 3.6 cm
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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1834 edition by John Murray, London.

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Judith Terry is Senior Instructor in the English Department at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating account from a slave-owner's perspective, 27 April 2003
By B. Tovey (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journal of a West India Proprietor (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
Matthew Lewis is a good writer. This account of his travels to the West Indies and his management of his plantations there is therefore worth reading for its own sake as a fascinating piece of literature. For anyone interested in writings about slavery it is also an invaluable document. Lewis was keen to behave well to his slaves, but his attitude towards them is too clearly constrained and conditioned by the prejudices of his time. I would encourage anyone intending to read this journal to read something like Olaudah Equiano's or Mary Prince's accounts of the life of a slave. Such writings put into perspective Lewis's attempts to justify the owning of slaves, as well as pointing out the absences in his text which elide and obscure the reality of the harsh and exhausting conditions which even the best-treated slaves were too often forced to endure.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Morality versus Self Interest, 14 April 2009
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Matthew Lewis inherited slave plantations in Jamaica and visited them quite extensively in the early nineteenth century. He supported the abolition of the slave trade but his racism and self-interest made it impossible for him to imagine how his slaves could survive without benevolent proprietors like him, so he opposed their emancipation. Large parts of the journal are really quite contemptible, being devoted to explanations of how noble and paternal he is, and how amusing or tiresome are the ways that his slaves behave. It is however an interesting and salutory read, and I think you should read it, lest you forget how limited were the aims of much of the middle and upper classes with regard to slavery: they simply deplored the brutality, but equality and freedom were issues they could no more contemplate for blacks in the West Indies than they could for the labourers on their farms and in their mills in Britain. There are lessons here that have an echo today- PETER SANDERS

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