The Grenada Planter: Or, a Full and Impartial Answer to a Letter in the Gazetteer of October 22, 1768. Relative to the Conduct of His Excy Gr Mle
- Grenada Planter (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
“The Grenada Planter” is a 1768 pamphlet responding point-by-point to a letter published in the Gazetteer on October 22, 1768, which had criticized the conduct of Grenada’s governor (identified only by the redacted initials “G–r M–le”). Written from the perspective of a colonial planter, it defends the governor’s administration against the earlier accusations, framing itself as a “full and impartial answer.” The piece is a product of the pamphlet-war culture of 18th-century British colonial politics, in which political disputes in far-flung territories like Grenada were fought out in London’s periodical press.
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