Synopses & Reviews
The first part of this anthology of historical documents contains the correspondence of Simon Taylor, 1765-1775, on the management of the Jamaican estates of British M.P. Chaloner Arcedekne. It constitutes the most important collection of private correspondence on the political history of Jamaica in the period. The second part describes three voyages made by John Chandler Langdon to Africa in the early 1880s. It provides a picture of sealife and Bristol's merchants in the African trade.
Synopsis
Considers trade, travel and power between Britain and Jamaica and West Africa.
Table of Contents
The letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765-1775 / edited by Betty Wood ... et al. -- Three voyages to the West Coast of Africa, 1881-1884 / John Landgon ; edited by Martin Lynn.