Stand in Jamaica in the middle of the 18th century and you are not simply looking at an island. You are looking at an engineered landscape. Every acre has been surveyed, claimed, fenced, drained, planted, mortgaged, inherited, and defended. Jamaica at this moment is Britain’s most profitable colony, and that wealth is not abstract. It is rooted in land — vast sugar estates carved into hillsides and...
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