Settler Jamaica in the 1750s A Social Portrait

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Greene, Jack P., author

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By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and m...

By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and maps, along with a variety of other contemporary materials, Jack Greene's study provides unparalleled detail about the character of Jamaica's settler society during the decade of the 1750s.

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