Ebook: Travel, Trade and Power in the Atlantic, 1765-1884

The first part of this anthology of historical documents contains the correspondence of Simon Taylor, 1765-1775, on the management of the Jamaican estates of British M.P. Chaloner Arcedekne.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.