West India Committee Records, 1793-1926. [1793-1926]

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West India Committee Records, 1793-1926. [1793-1926]

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The records include minute books of the general meetings of the Committee of Planters and Merchants together with its standing committees; Minutes of the Literary Committee; Minutes of the Committee of West India Merchants and other miscellaneous records.

minute books, notebooks, correspondence.

The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Main Library, The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine

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The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine, Main Library, The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine

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West India Committee

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The West India Committee was formed in the 18th century by a permanent association of London merchants engaged in the West Indian trade, and absentee owners of West Indian estates who lived in London and its environs. The interests of both planters and merchants appear to have been first joined on a permanent basis in 1775; before then, the two groups tended to promote their separate interests except on occasions when their usually different priorities became united. The Committee acted as a pre...