A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of H----b-----h, His M-y's S-y of S-te for the C-l-s, on the Present Situation of Affairs in the Island of Gr-n-da
- Gr-n-da Proprietor (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This is an 18th-century pamphlet published in 1769, written by someone identified only as “A Grenada Proprietor” — a landowner with interests in the Caribbean island of Grenada. The title, rendered with dashes to obscure proper names in the fashion common to political writing of the era, addresses the British Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding the state of affairs on the island, which Britain had acquired from France following the Seven Years' War in 1763. As a primary source from the period of early British colonial administration of Grenada, it offers a firsthand perspective on the political and economic tensions that arose as British governance took hold on a predominantly French-settled island.
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