A New History of Jamaica: From the Earliest Accounts to the Taking of Porto Bello by Vice-Admiral Vernon (Cambridge Library Collection – Slavery and Abolition)

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Little is understood concerning the anonymous creator of this book, later identified as one Charles Leslie, whose circle of relatives had strong Caribbean interests. In thirteen ‘letters’, Leslie covers Jamaica’s early colonial history, its laws, the lives of its governors and the exploits of famous Caribbean pirates. He provides necessary evidence for the conditions through which slaves were traded and kept, and describes the slaves’ beliefs and customs. Leslie’s book was once highly topical: it first gave the impression as ‘A new and exact account of Jamaica’ in Edinburgh in 1739, following years of growing hostility between Spain and Britain over trade within the Caribbean. That summer, Vice-Admiral Vernon was once sent there to destroy as many Spanish ships and settlements as imaginable, and in November he captured Portobello. This book reproduces Leslie’s suitably retitled second edition (London, 1740), which contained an additional chapter. A Dublin edition followed in 1741, and a French translation in 1751.

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