'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution
(2022)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. G. (2022). 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution. In J. Black (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade : Volume III : Eighteenth Century (265-283). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003362494
When eighteenth-century Britons contemplated their possessions in the West Indies what struck them most was the wealth of these small tropical islands. This chapter reports new estimates about how much wealth Europeans possessed in Jamaica on the eve... Read More about 'Prodigious riches': The wealth of Jamaica before the American Revolution.