1: The History of Jamaica: Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, with Reflections on its Situation, Settlements, … Library Collection – Slavery and Abolition)

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Edward Long’s three-volume work marks an immense turning point within the historiography of Jamaica, as the primary attempt at a comprehensive description of the colony, its history, government, folks, economy and geography. The son of a prominent Jamaican plantation owner, Long (1734-1813) spent twelve years running his father’s property, an revel in which permeates his vision of the island’s past, present and future. During his book, Long defends slavery as ‘inevitably important’ in Jamaica, suggesting the institution to be implicit within the ‘possession of British freedom’. Volume 1 gives an overview of British colonial government in Jamaica, a history of the island’s initial colonisation by Spain, and an account of the economy, including population and export figures and details of costs paid for slaves all the way through the eighteenth century. This vital 1774 book provides fascinating insights into eighteenth-century colonial Jamaica and the ideology of its commercial and administrative elite.

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