The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 (Records of Social and Economic History (New Series))

by KennethMorgan (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $156.55

  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.