The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the... - 9780813945569

The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories Thereon DependingFrom the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746\nAuthor(s): James Knight, Jack P. Greene\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813945569, 978-0813945569\nSynopsis\nBetween 1737 and 1746, James Knight a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony's development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of [tel] and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight's work is not only the most com.