Travel, Trade and Power in the Atlantic, 1765–1884

Considers trade, travel and power between Britain and Jamaica and West Africa.

Betty Wood (Edited by), Martin Lynn (Edited by)

9780521823128, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 March 2003

296 pages
22.4 x 14.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.494 kg

The first part of the Miscellany, edited by Betty Wood and W. D. Speck, contains the correspondence of Simon Taylor, 1765 –1775, on the management of the Jamaican estates of British M.P. Chaloner Arcedekne. These detailed and often highly picturesque letters form the most important collection of private correspondence on the political history of Jamaica in the period they cover, and comment extensively also on the imperial connection with Britain. The second part, edited by M. Lynn, describes three voyages made by John Chandler Langdon to Africa in the early 1880s. It provides a vivid picture of life on board a sailing ship and tells us much about Bristol, its merchants in the African trade, the techniques used in that trade and the commercial potentialities of parts of West Africa at the moment when the scramble for the region was getting underway.

Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
The Letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765–1775
Three Voyages to the West Coast of Africa, 1881–1884 by J. C. Langdon
Index.

Subject Areas: Maritime / nautical trades [TRLT], Economic history [KCZ], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], General & world history [HBG]