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Michael W. McCahill

The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795

Jamaica, The West India Interest at Westminster and the Campaign to Preserve the Slave Trade

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Stephen Fuller (1716-1808) was the agent for the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the late eighteenth century. Edited by M.W. McCahill, The Correspondence of Stephen Fuller, 1788-1795, offers a much-needed accounting of how slavery supporters in Britain managed to preserve the slave trade for a decade or more. They also serve as a mirror into the Caribbean past by illuminating a host of pressing issues and concern. For white settlers these included the constant need to provide for Jamaica's defense against foreign rivals and their own restive slaves; to fend off challenges to the islands' longstanding commercial privileges; and to counter aboli… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-118-93212-4
  • EAN: 9781118932124
  • Produktnummer: 18898077
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 200 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 386 g
  • Gewicht: 386

Über den Autor


After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University, M.W. McCahill taught at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and then, for 30 years, at Brooks School where he also served as dean. He is the author of Order and Equipoise: The Peerage and the House of Lords, 1783-1806 (1978) and The House of Lords in the Age of George III, 1760-1811 (2009).

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