Christer Petley is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his publications are Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (2009) and articles in Atlantic Studies, Slavery & Abolition and The Historical Journal

• 1. Rethinking the fall of the planter class 2. Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674–1784 3. Sugar, spirits, and fodder: The London West India interest and the glut of 1807–15 4. The rise of a new planter class? Some countercurrents from British Guiana and Trinidad, 1807–33 5. Gluttony, excess, and the fall of the planter class in the British Caribbean 6. The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823

Christer Petley is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his publications are Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition (2009) and articles in Atlantic Studies, Slavery & Abolition and The Historical Journal

• 1. Rethinking the fall of the planter class 2. Et in Arcadia ego: West Indian planters in glory, 1674–1784 3. Sugar, spirits, and fodder: The London West India interest and the glut of 1807–15 4. The rise of a new planter class? Some countercurrents from British Guiana and Trinidad, 1807–33 5. Gluttony, excess, and the fall of the planter class in the British Caribbean 6. The decline of Jamaica’s interracial households and the fall of the planter class, 1733–1823