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001 9781851171446
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020 9781851171446
028 51 R71446|bMicroform Academic Publishers
040 UkHlHU
050 4 F 2035 P2
245 04 The papers of Samuel Martin, 1694/5-1776, relating to
Antigua|h[microform] :|bfrom the collections of the
British Library.
246 33 Papers of Samuel Martin relating to Antigua
260 East Ardsley, Wakefield :|bMicroform Academic Publishers,
|c2010.
300 3 microfilm reels.
440 0 British records relating to America in microform
500 Online guide by Natalie Zacek.
520 These papers detail the commercial, political, and
personal lives of the Martin family of Antigua and
Berkshire from the mid-eighteenth through the late
nineteenth centuries. The volumes included in this
microform edition are the letter-books of Samuel Martin
(1694/5-1776), planter of Antigua, and related documents
(British Library Add. Mss. 41346-51 & 41353). As one of
the largest and widest-ranging surviving collections of
West Indian planter family papers, the letter-books of
Samuel Martin constitute an important source for the study
of eighteenth-century West Indian planters, and of the
island societies which they shaped and were shaped by at
the height of the era of sugar and slavery. As such, they
offer an unparalleled picture of social and economic life
in one of Britain's most important plantation colonies at
the time of its greatest prosperity, and offer the
historian an outstanding opportunity to understand both
the day-to-day management of a successful sugar plantation
and the patterns of life in a mature plantation society.
600 10 Martin, Samuel,|d1694 or 5-1776.
650 0 Sugar plantations|z|xHistory|y18th century|vSources.
651 0 Antigua|xHistory|y18th century|vSources.
700 1 Martin, Samuel,|d1694 or 5-1776.
856 41 |uhttp://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R71446.pdf|zGo to
online guide
