Slavery, Sugar and the Culture of Refinement
Kay Dian Criz

Yale, £35 (978-0-300-14062-0)
Church Times Bookshop £31.50

This coloured lithograph, Milkwoman, Kingston, Jamaica (1837-38), is by Isaac Belisario, and is one of a series entitled Sketches of Character, which shows Kingston to be a thriving urban centre. From which considers prints and paintings of the British West Indies 1700-1840, and the links between brutality and fine living

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