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An Irishman's life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787-1790 : the letter book of Attorney General Michael Keane
- Title
- An Irishman's life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787-1790 : the letter book of Attorney General Michael Keane / Mark S. Quintanilla, editor.
- Author
- Keane, Michael, -1796.
- Publication
- Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Quintanilla, Mark S.
- Description
- 202 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence of Michael Keane, an eighteenth-century Irish attorney general of St Vincent.From Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, Keane's Irish-West Indian odyssey brought him first to the British colony of Barbados and after 1763 to the Ceded Islands, which Great Britain acquired at the conclusion of the Seven Years War. From his base in St Vincent, he founded sugar estates rose through the ranks of colonial society and established a West Indian fortune. As Keane's correspondence shows, he worked on behalf of Irish Atlantic interests that had become dispersed throughout the colonial world, including Catholic, Protestant and Non-Conformist merchants, as well as absentee Irish-West Indian planters and merchants in Barbados, Nevis and St Kitts, who looked to him to protect their interests in the colony. His letter book provides a rare look into the world of the plantation attorney and manager."
- Alternative Title
- Irishman's life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787-90
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Personal correspondence.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: an Irish West Indian Atlantic -- The letter book of Michael Keane.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1654
- ISBN
- 9781846827914
- 1846827914
- OCLC
- 1083271943
- Author
- Keane, Michael, -1796.
- Title
- An Irishman's life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787-1790 : the letter book of Attorney General Michael Keane / Mark S. Quintanilla, editor.
- Publisher
- Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Added Author
- Quintanilla, Mark S., editor.
- Spine Title
- Irishman's life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787-90
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1654