1826 SIX MONTHS in THE WEST INDIES in 1825 antique TRAVELS antique

img{max-width:100%}Henry Nelson Coleridge Six months in the West Indies in 1825 London; 1826 Original 3/4 leather over marbled boards All edges are marbled Size 5 by 7.5" 332 pages Minor wear of the binding, lacks frontis (map), very good interior With writing in pencil at the title page (easy to erase) Text in English ============================ Travel literature was popular and widely available in Britain during the nineteenth century. This book by Henry Nelson Coleridge is one of several accounts of trips to the West Indies in the early part of the century, alongside those, for example, of George Pinckard published in 1806, Methodist minister Rev. Richard Bickell in 1825, and Matthew Gregory Lewis in 1834. (Lewis had inherited two Jamaican estates with slaves, and visited them in 1815 and 1817. His book was published posthumously.) Such ‘first-hand’ accounts helped shape public opinion on colonial matters, including slavery, and indeed provided an