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The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837

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The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 - Morgan, Kenneth (Editor)
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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.

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The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837 2008, British Academy, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780197264058

Hardcover