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The Bright-Meyler Papers - A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 (Hardcover, New)
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The Bright-Meyler Papers - A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Records of Social and Economic History (New Series), Vol 40
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The documents collected here illuminate the conduct of British
trade and investments in the Caribbean when slavery was at its
height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's
Atlantic empire. Pertaining to the commercial and plantation
interests of two Bristol families connected through marriage and
business, the documents include correspondence, wills and
inventories, partnership agreements, insurance policies and
property deeds.
The introduction addresses issues of the slave trade and sugar
cultivation, capital accumulation, the ways in which a West India
fortune was created, the risk environment of the Caribbean, and
social, economic and demographic conditions in eighteenth-century
Bristol and Jamaica.
A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period, this
volume shows that British merchants connected with the West Indies
were centrally concerned with improvement, independence, and social
mobility.
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