Family and People all Well . . . An Account of the Occurrences in the Business of Mahogany and Logwood Cutting in the Bay of Honduras in 1789
By Roy Murray.
Description
Colonel James Lawrie was one of the most significant mahogany and logwood cutters in Belize during the last quarter of the 18th century. Unlike most other British colonists in the Caribbean region at the time who were attempting to make their fortunes in sugar, those settlers living in the Belize territory on the Bay of Honduras employed their slaves in timber extraction as the commercial production of sugar in the Settlement was formally prohibited by treaty. The journal upon which this manuscript is based forms part of a private collection of Lawrie Papers held at the Scottish Record Offi...
ISBN(s)
9768161159, 9789768161154
