ABSTRACT Historians of slavery in the Americas have focussed on major revolts such as Haiti in 1791 to explain emancipation, and ignored smaller clashes. A close study of one such clash in Jamaica in 1819 between slave runaways in the Hellshire Hills and the colonial state offers a new perspective. Planters used the cooperation of free and enslaved people of colour to carry out a “descent” that destroyed the runaways in the region. Yet the descent cost over £3,000, piling financial pressure onto a slave society that was already overburdened with high rates of taxation and a declining economy. The descent into Hellshire in 1819 is therefore an important example of the more routine and less prominent police operations that appeared to cement the authority of local planters but also gradually and cumulatively undermined the capacity of white planters in the British West Indies to resist imperial pressure for emancipation.

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赫尔郡的血统：1819–1820年间牙买加的安全，保障和奴隶制的终结

摘要美洲奴隶制历史学家关注1791年海地等重大起义来解释解放，并忽略了较小的冲突。对1819年牙买加在海尔郡希尔斯的奴隶逃亡者与殖民地国家之间发生的一次冲突的深入研究提供了新的视角。种植者利用自由和奴役的有色人种的合作进行了“后裔”，摧毁了该地区的逃亡者。然而，这种下降的成本却超过了3,000英镑，这给已经负担沉重的高税率和经济下滑的奴隶社会带来了财务压力。