Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786
(1999)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (1999). Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786. In C. Daniels, & M. V. Kennedy (Eds.), Over the threshold : intimate violence in early America (237-253). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203949054
© 1999 by Routledge. One and a half months after arriving in Jamaica, John Thistlewood, a young Englishman residing with his uncle, Thomas, an overseer on a Westmoreland sugar plantation, had a nasty shock. On April 15,1764, John " Hard a great Noise... Read More about Theater of terror : Domestic violence in thomas thistlewood’s jamaica, 1750-1786.