Ebook: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756

Painting a picture of mid-eighteenth-century everyday life in Britain’s richest colony on the brink of war.

A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.