An Irishman's life on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1787-90
Subtitle: the letter book of Attorney General Michael Keane
By: Mark S. Quintanilla, editor
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781846827914
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Correspondence; Irish; History
Description: "This book makes available the previously unpublished correspondence of Michael Keane, an eighteenth-century Irish attorney general of St Vincent.From Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, Keane's Irish-West Indian odyssey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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an Irish West Indian Atlantic --; title: The letter book of Michael Keane.