British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
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This series from Microform Academic Publishers includes archival materials such as journals, correspondence, official records and personal papers over a two hundred year period, all related to British nvolvement in the Atlantic region, including both Africa and the Americas.It brings together a wealth of collections about Britain's colonisation, commercial, missionary and even literary relations with Africa and the Americas.
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longside the records of Liverpool merchants involved in the infamous Triangular Trade, there are those of slave plantation owners, of early Anglican missionaries, of naval and customs officials, and of a group of nobodies from Lancashire, who maintained a lengthy correspondence over many years with the father of American poetry. The series is an online off-shoot of the long-standing microfilm series, British Records Relating to America in Microform (BRRAM).
Contents:
pt. 1. Records relating to the slave trade at the Liverpool
Record Office
pt. 2. American material in the archives of the USPG
pt. 3. Papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797
pt. 4. Jamaican materials in the Slebech papers
pt. 5. Papers relating to the Jamaican estates of the
Goulburn family of Betchworth
pt. 6. Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa
and the Indies, 1694-
pt. 7. Journal, annual sermons and reports of the SPG,
1701-1870
pt. 8. South American Missionary Society records, 1844-1919
pt. 9. Liverpool street and trade directories, 1766-1900
pt. 10. Early colonial and missionary records for West
Africa
pt. 11. West Indies material in the archives of the USPG,
1710-1950
pt. 12. Archives of the Associates of Dr. Bray to 1900.
pt. 13. Collected papers of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship.
Coverage
- 1700 - 1900
Information Type:
- Citations? Yes
- Abstracts? No
- Full Text? Yes
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