Author: (LESLIE, Charles).
Title: A new history of Jamaica, from the earliest accounts, to the taking of Porto Bello by vice-admiral Vernon. In thirteen letters from a gentleman to his friend.
Description: London, J. Hodges, 1740.Contemporary calf (rebacked). With 2 engraved folding maps. IV,340 pp.Second edition; first published in Edinburgh in 1739. - The title-page is unusually long, and is, in fact, a table of contents. The book covers Jamaica's early colonial history, its laws, the lives of its governors and provides important evidence for the conditions in which slaves were traded and kept, and describes the slaves' beliefs and customs. Includes also a great deal relating to Morgan and the buccaneers. - (Age browned).Sabin 35636; European-Americana VI, p.273; The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 207.

Keywords: America Caribbean Islands Jamaica slavery