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*[https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof02wynn/page/n7/mode/2up ''A General History of the British Empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the peace of Paris, Volume II''] by Mr Wynne 1770 Archive.org. (Vol II contains the West Indies sections).
*[https://archive.org/details/BNA-DIG-HARTOG-COCKBURNE/mode/2up ''The Trial of Lieutenant Colonel Cockburne, late Governor of the Island of St. Eustatius, for the Loss of the said Island, before a Court Martial held at the Horse Guards, on Monday, May 12th, 1783, and nine subsequent Days''] taken in Short Hand by E Hodgson. 1783 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/west-india-seamans-med-directory/page/n1/mode/2up ''The West-India Seaman's Medical Directory for the use of such Merchant-Ships trading to the West-Indies as carry no Surgeon''] by William Chamberlaine, Surgeon 1785. Archive.org.
*[http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000001518 ''A brief account of the island of Antigua''] by John Luffman 1789. Biblioteca Digital Hispánica, Biblioteca Nacional de España. Title as catalogued by the British Library ''A brief account of the island of Antigua, together with the customs and manners of its inhabitants, as well white as black: ... In letters to a friend. Written in the years 1786, 1787, 1788''.
*''A descriptive account of the island of Jamaica: with remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, throughout the different seasons of the year, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view; also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves'' by William Beckford 1790. [https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveacc02beckgoog/page/n7 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/adescriptiveacc03beckgoog/page/n6 Volume II] Archive.org.
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