Sugar and Slavery
Sugar and Slavery

Author: Richard B. Sheridan

Publisher: Canoe Press (IL)

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9789768125132

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This book covers the changing preference of growing sugar rather than tobacco which had been the leading crop in the trans-Atlantic colonies. The Sugar Islands were Antigua, Barbados, St. Christopher, Dominica, and Cuba through Trinidad. Jamaica has been by far the major producer of sugar, but The Lesser Antilles had the advantage of a shorter sea trip to deliver produce and rum to the European Markets during the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857
Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857

Author: David Dobson

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0806353120

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This book began as Jean Stephenson's effort to validate the family tradition that her great-great-grandparents emigrated from Belfast to South Carolina under the leadership of Covenanter Presbyterian minister William Martin in 1772. The author was not only able to authenticate the crux of the story, but, in the process, to place nearly 500 Scotch-Irish families in South Carolina on the eve of the Revolutionary War.Genealogists will want to pore over the land evidences assembled by the author from entries found in the Council Journal, namely, authorizations, survey abstracts, wills, deeds and other records which demonstrate where each family settled, or was entitled to settle. The families, which are grouped under the vessel they traveled in, are identified by the name of the household head, names of spouse and children, number of acres surveyed, county, location of the nearest body of water and the names of abutting neighbor, and the source of the information.

Caribbeana
Caribbeana

Author: Thomas W. Krise

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-02-15

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0226453936

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Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have been conspicuously absent from anthologies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. In this first literary anthology dedicated to the region, Thomas W. Krise gathers important but little-known descriptions, poems, narratives, satires, and essays written in and about this culturally rich and politically tempestuous region. Caribbeana offers invaluable period commentaries on slavery, colonialism, gender relations, African and European history, natural history, agriculture, and medicine. Highlights include several of the earliest protests against slavery; a superb ode by the Cambridge-educated Afro-Jamaican poet Francis Williams; James Grainger's extended georgic poem, The Sugar Cane; Frances Seymour's poignant tale of the Englishman Inkle who sells his Indian savior-lover Yarico into slavery; and several descriptions of the West Indies during the early years of settlement.

A Concise History of the Caribbean
A Concise History of the Caribbean

Author: B. W. Higman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1108480985

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A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change.

A Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies, 1985-1989
A Bibliography of Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographies, 1985-1989

Author: Lionel V. Loroña

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780810827028

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The fifth supplement to Arthur E. Gropp's A Bibliography of Latin American Bibliographies (1968), covering bibliographies published 1985-89, and those published earlier but not noted in previous supplements. For the first time, includes Caribbean bibliographies. The 1,867 citations are unannotated. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR