Series Information: SLAVE TRADE
Manx Slave Traders (1999) was the first book in this series (see Manx) to be followed by Dumfries and Galloway and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Dumfries & Galloway). Christopher Hasell's slave trading activities in Liverpool are described in The Hasells of Dalemain: A Cumberland Family 1736 to 1794. A booklet about a Derbyshire family is described here.Bittersweet: A Story of Four Jamaican Plantations
This booklet was written to supplement the Bittersweet exhibition held at Tissington Hall, Derbyshire during the
summer of 2007, which year marked the 200th anniversary of the law abolishing the transatlantic slave trade from
Britain. It describes the life and work on four Jamaican sugar plantations inherited by the FitzHerbert family
in the eighteenth century and subsequently managed from Tissington Hall.
2007
ISBN 978 1 897725 08 5
A5 32pp paperback
£3.00