The Bright-Meyler Papers

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.

ISBN 0197264050   Pages 726 ISBN13 9780197264058 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 1303 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Series title Records of Social & Economic History (New Series) Publication date 27 Dec 2007   Height (mm) 242 Library of Congress 2008271662   Width (mm) 164 DEWEY 382.09423930729   Spine width (mm) 46 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

		List of Plates and Charts
		Editorial method
		Introduction		1
Pt. 1		The Provenance and Coverage or the Bright Meyler Papers		7
Pt. 2		The Evolution of the Bright Meyler Interests in The Caribbean		14
Pt. 3		Themes in the Bright Meyler Papers		79
		The Bright Meyler Papers		153
App. 1		'Draft of Particulars of the Trade of Bristol, 1788'		655
App. 2		Publications on British West India merchants and planters		669
App. 3		Glossary of Textile and Trade terms		672
		Index of Personal Names		675
		Index of Place Names		691
		Index of Ships		695
		Index of Subjects		699

Kenneth Morgan should be congratulated for making available a rich and important set of documents. Economic History Review A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period Spartacus Review

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