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Informationen zum Autor Born in Prescott, Arizona, the author spent his boyhood in Ash Fork and Phoenix before becoming an Air Force brat and moving all over the country every three years, and to Spain for his High School years.After a Navy tour as a Combat Aircrewman in Vietnam, he settled with his new bride, Terri, in Silicon Valley in 1969.He packed up his family and returned to Arizona in 1979.Today, as a retired aerospace design engineer, Ed lives in Mesa, Arizona, with Terri. Nearby are his two sons and their wives, a robust grandson and his wife, and three beautiful, talented granddaughters.In his trusty Jeep Cherokee, he can be found exploring the vast mountains, valleys, forests, and deserts of Arizona. Klappentext Edward Long's three-volume work marks a major turning point in the historiography of Jamaica, as the first attempt at a comprehensive description of the colony, its history, government, people, economy and geography. The son of a prominent Jamaican plantation owner, Long (1734-1813) spent twelve years running his father's property, an experience which permeates his vision of the island's past, present and future. Throughout his book, Long defends slavery as 'inevitably necessary' in Jamaica, suggesting the institution to be implicit in the 'possession of British freedom'. Volume 2 presents a survey of the counties of Jamaica, information on religion, education and health, descriptions and racial classifications of the population, a history of the slave rebellions and details of the legal code governing slavery. This important 1774 book provides fascinating insights into eighteenth-century colonial Jamaica and the ideology of its commercial and administrative elite. Zusammenfassung Edward Long's three-volume History of Jamaica (1774) was the first attempt at a comprehensive description of the colony! constructed as a vigorous defence of its slave economy. Volume 2 includes county surveys! descriptions of inhabitants! a history of the slave rebellions and details of laws governing slavery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Book 2: 7. Topographical description of the island, Middlesex; 8. Surry; 9. Cornwall; 10. State of the clergy; 11. Mines; 12. Schools; 13. Of the inhabitants; Book 3: 1. Negroes; 2. Guiney slaves; 3. Of the Creole slaves and African negroes in Jamaica; 4. Francis Williams; 5. Laws affecting slaves; 6. Regulations for preserving health in Jamaica; Appendix; Corrigenda....
