Travel, Trade and Power in the Atlantic, 1765–1884 (Camden Fifth Series, Series Number 19)

The first part of this anthology of historical documents contains the correspondence of Simon Taylor, 1765-1775, on the management of the Jamaican estates of British M.P. Chaloner Arcedekne.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. "The first part of the Miscellany 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 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. It 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."--Jacket The letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765-1775 / edited by Betty Wood with the assistance of T.R. Clayton and W.A. Speck Three voyages to the west coast of Africa, 1881-1884 / John Langdon ; edited by Martin Lynn. Between 1765 and 1801 Simon Taylor, one of the most important landowners in Jamaica, wrote regularly to Chaloner Arcedekne, an absentee proprietor who lived in Heveningham Hall in Suffolk.