The Caribbean island of Carriacou was ceded to the British by the French after the Seven Years’War (1763). Carriacou’s population of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Scots, and free people of color, along with their enslaved workers, comprised a distinctive slaveholding society in comparison to that of the old British colonies.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
214 p, A highly illustrated reference book providing information about the cultural, social, political, economic, geographic, natural and historic heritage of the Caribbean region. In addition to the English-, French-, Spanish- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, the book covers the countries with which these islands have close cultural, economic and historic ties: Guyana, Suriname, Belize, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bermuda.
Bigelow,John (Author) and Scholnick, Robert J. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Originally published: New York & London : Putnam, 1851., 214 p, After Jamaican slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, the local economy collapsed. Driven by a belief in the innate inferiority of the black race and bolstered by this apparently disastrous Jamaican example, Americans who defended slavery convinced many that emancipation at home would lead to economic and social chaos. Collecting John Bigelow's vivid firsthand reporting, Jamaica in 1850 challenges that widely held view and demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
18.3 Linear Feet
Notes:
"The bulk of the papers are organizational materials relating to Allen's involvement in the YMCA, the NAACP, and as a District School Community Coordinator for the Board of Education for New York. The main strength of the collection is the celebration of African American cultural identity through the education of both children and adults alike." (Amistad Rsearch Center) Series 2: Recreational Materials, 1923-1973 includes Box 15, Folder 6 includes Travel: Caribbean and Mexico [Brochures, correspondence, travel guides, receipts]; Series 3: Writings by James Egert Allen, 1925-1965 includes Box 17, Folder 17: Black History, Past and Present: Blacks and the Caribbean; Tappian Brother; and Series 5: Collected Publications, Printed Ephemera and Clippings, 1925-1973 includes Box 33, Folder 25: Periodicals: Caribbean League of America, 1957
