University of the West Indies: West Indies and Special Collections [1672 - present]
Scope & Content:
The Manuscripts Collection contains documentation from Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, Carriacou, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. The current inventory focuses on manuscripts from 1672 through 1800. The Collection comprises documents pertaining to slave...
Letters to Col. Charles Long concerning the latter's estates and affairs in Jamaica [1708-1712]
Scope & Content:
The letters deal with the mismanagement of overseers, the decay of estate buildings and their repair, runaway slaves and the hiring out of slaves with respect to Long properties, Norbrook, Sevens, Lucky Valley and Bowers. The names of many prominent Jamaican planters are mentioned in the letters...