Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685
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- Author(s) Hancock, David (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2002
- Pages 406pp
- Publisher London Record Society
- Place Published London
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- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Provides transcriptions of 376 out letters [out of a surviving total of 686] sent by William Freeman in London between 1678-85 to his partners, agents, employees, correspondents and customers in 'his native Leeward Islands, Africa, Madeira, Portugal, France, Ireland, Scotland and the West of England'. Provide a detailed account of the day to day work of his firm as general commission merchants trading to the West Indies with particular interests in slave trading and sugar trading. Contains an introduction [ppvii-xlix] covering Freeman's life and work with sections: 'The historical and historiographical context'; 'William Freeman Esq' - 'Family' / 'Activities in the Leewards' / London life' / 'Retirement'; 'The institutions of commission merchandising'