Download or read book Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805 written by Lady Maria Nugent and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal diary of Lady Nugent, wife of the Governor of Jamaica, the most important of the highly prized British sugar colonies, during a critical period in the Napoleonic War. Entries, mainly concerned with life in the Governor's household, convey fresh impressions of life at the centre of a slave-owning colonial society.