DATABASE TRIAL: British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 focuses on the two centuries of Britain’s colonial, missionary, commercial and literary relations with Africa and the Americas.

The database contains 14 collections of rare primary source documents, with the total number of images at almost 300,000.

British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 includes:

  • Early colonial and missionary records from West Africa
  • Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1694-1709
  • American material in the archives of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1635-1812
  • West Indies material in the archives of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1710-1950
  • Jamaican material in the Slebech papers
  • South American Missionary Society records, 1844-1919
  • Journal, annual sermons and reports of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1701-1870
  • Liverpool street and trade directories, 1766-1900
  • Papers relating to the Jamaican estates of the Goulburn family of Betchworth House
  • Records relating to the slave trade at the Liverpool Record Office
  • The archives of the Associates of Dr Bray to 1900
  • The Canadian papers of the 4th Earl of Minto
  • Collected papers of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship
  • The papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797
Janet Clarke

Janet Clarke

Associate Dean, Research & User Engagement at Stony Brook University Libraries
email: janet.clarke@stonybrook.edu
Janet Clarke
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