![]() ![]() Hall’s chapters simply follow the stages of Thislewood’s life and career. Ulrich uses each chapter to illuminate specific areas of world that Martha lived in. Ulrich explores Martha Ballard’s world beyond her diary. His behavior does not improve when he gets to Jamaica and becomes the overseer on a small sugar plantation. The earliest details we learn from his diary is his sexual encounter, most of them which are commercial in nature although before leaving England he does manage to have several encounters with friends wives. Unlike Martha Ballard, who was a sympathetic and often-heroic character, Thomas Thistlewood is not someone I would like to know. Like Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale, which preceded this book by seven years, In Miserable Slavery is derived from the personal journal of a person who would otherwise be unknown to us. ![]()
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