In the long arc of Dominica’s colonial history, 528 years ago from since Christopher Columbus first sighted the mountainous island in 1493, I am moved to say, that the most important publication of the 18th-century about Dominica is this 1791 publication penned by Thomas Atwood Esq, former Chief Justice in Dominica, who served from 1766–1773, followed by a similar tenure in The Bahamas from 1774–1785. The 285-page book published by Frank Cass and Company Limited in 1791, and has since fallen into the public domain. This followed his 1789 pamphlet on the Observations on the true methods of treatment and usage of the Negro slaves, in the British West-Indian Islands and a refutation of the gross misrepresentations calculated to impose on the nation on that subject Dedicated to Lords Penrhyn in which he gives an over-blown defense of slavery in the West Indies to the British readership