Description
| Product ID: | 9780197264058 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Records of Social and Economic History (New Series) |
| Title: | The Bright-Meyler Papers |
| Subtitle: | A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 |
| Authors: | Author: Kenneth Morgan |
| Page Count: | 726 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History, Economic history, History of other lands, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Economic history, Caribbean islands, c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-12-27 |