The Bright-Meyler Papers
A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 : 40
(Author) Kenneth Morgan
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These documents illuminate the conduct of British trade in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's Atlantic empire. Detailing the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families, the volume sheds light on how fortunes were created by merchants striving for social improvement.
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Format:
Hardcover
Number of pages:
746
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780197264058
Publish year:
2007
Publish date:
Dec. 27, 2007