Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834

Author: B. W. Higman

Publisher: University of the West Indies Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13: 9789766400101

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Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. Excellent tables and figures. Essential for serious scholars of the region. -Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58

Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class
Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class

Author: Christer Petley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1315516071

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From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the ‘fall of the planter class’, offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

West Indies Accounts
West Indies Accounts

Author: Richard B. Sheridan

Publisher: Barbados : The Press University of the West Indies

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9789766400224

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Collection of essays written by former students, colleagues, and friends to honor a preeminent economic historian of the Caribbean. Covering period 1650-1850, essays encompass a broad range of topics, with major focus on various aspects of slavery and imperial relations during those years. Excellent introductory essay on Sheridan's contributions to Caribbean economic history.

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783
Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783

Author: Matthew Mulcahy

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2008-08-11

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0801898978

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Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly became the most feared part of their physical environment, destroying staple crops and provisions, leveling plantations and towns, disrupting shipping and trade, and resulting in major economic losses for planters and widespread privation for slaves. In this study, Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of the storms in shaping the development of the region's colonial settlements. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 provides a useful new perspective on several topics including colonial science, the plantation economy, slavery, and public and private charity. By integrating the West Indies into the larger story of British Atlantic colonization, Mulcahy's work contributes to early American history, Atlantic history, environmental history, and the growing field of disaster studies.