Pobres, marginados y peligrosos (review)
population of Jamaica during the peak of the sugar plantation economy. Burnard provides an enlightening portrait of Thomas Thistlewood as a product of his age, a man of humble beginnings who rose in the colonial social order because he was willing and able to stand on the bodies of the enslaved. Without that power to enslave, Thistlewood the European man would never have amounted to much. As such, we can read the life of Thomas Thistlewood as an allegory of the rise of Europe in the eighteenth century, as the wealth and power of that continent was drawn from the lives of those that were enslaved.