African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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269 p., The Colonial Bank had been founded in 1836 to carry on business in the West Indies and British Guiana (now Guyana) and had been empowered by special acts of 1916–17 to conduct business anywhere in the world.
Morgan,Gwenda Auteur (Author) and Rushton,Peter (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
London: Blooomsbury
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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309 p., This book places banishment in the early Atlantic world in its legal, political and social context. Contents: Part one. Diverse patterns of banishment in Britain and Ireland --Part two. Continuity and change: British North America and the Caribbean.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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326 p., Part of a series listing materials on the history of North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. Organized thematically, the book covers, among many other topics, exploration and colonization; maritime history; environment; Native Americans; race, gender, and ethnicity; migration; labor and class; business; families; religion; material culture; science; education; politics; and military affairs.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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257 p., Chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines the construction of a casta (caste) system under the Spanish government, and how this system was negotiated and employed by Andeans and Africans.
Burlington, Ont.: TannerRitchie Pub. in collaboration with the Library and Information Services of the University of St. Andrews
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Other Titles: America and West Indies, 1699. Originally published in print: London : Printed for H.M.S.O., by Mackie and Co., 1908., 1 online resource., This book discusses the original state paper of the British colonies; Editors: [v. 1-10] W.N. Sainsbury (with J.W. Fortescue, [v. 10])-- [v. 11-16] J.W. Fortescue.-- [v. 17-] Cecil Headlam (with A.P. Newton, [v. 38-])./ Eastern series continued in the calendars published by the India office
Proposes that civilizational analysis has yet to fully address the colonial legacy and, to clarify the stakes at play, compares and contrasts the historical sociology of CLR James with the mytho-poetics of Derek Walcott. Both authors, in different ways, have attempted to endow that quintessentially un-civilizable body -- the New World slave -- with subjecthood.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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306 p., Weather-induced environmental crises and slow responses from imperial authorities, Johnson argues, played an inextricable and, until now, largely unacknowledged role in the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the 18th century Caribbean.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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282 p., Prior tO 1640, When the Regular Slave Trade to New Spain ended, colonial Mexico was the second largest importer of slaves in the Americas. Even so, slavery never supplanted indigenous labor in the colony, and by the second half of the 17th century there were more free Afromexicans than slaves in Mexico.
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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352 p., In the first half of the 19th century, the safeguarding of the health of the enslaved workers became a central concern for plantation owners and colonial administrators in the Danish West Indies. This title explores the health conditions of the enslaved workers and the health policies initiated by planters and the colonial government.
Kelly,Kenneth G. (Author) and Hardy,Meredith D. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
250 p, Introduction /Kenneth G. Kelly and Meredith D. Hardy -- -- French Protestants in South Carolina: the archaeology of a European ethnic minority /Ellen Shlasko -- -- French refugees and slave abuse in Frederick County, Maryland: Jean Payen de Boisneuf and the Vincendière Family at L'Hermitage Plantation /Sara Rivers-Cofield -- -- Commoditization of persons, places, and things during Biloxi's second tenure as capital of French colonial Louisiana /Barbara Thedy Hester -- -- The Moran site (22HR511): an early-eighteenth-century French colonial cemetery in Nouveau Biloxi, Mississippi /Marie Elaine Danforth -- -- The greatest gathering: the second French-Chickasaw War in the Mississippi Valley and the potential for archaeology /Ann M. Early -- -- Colonial and Creole diets in eighteenth-century New Orleans /Elizabeth M. ScottShannon Lee Dawdy -- -- Colonoware in Western colonial Louisiana: makers and meaning /David W. MorganKevin C. MacDonald -- -- Living on the edge : foodways and early expressions of Creole culture on the French colonial Gulf Coast frontier /Meredith D. Hardy -- -- La Vie Quotidienne : historical archaeological approaches to the plantation era in Guadeloupe, French West Indies /Kenneth G. Kelly -- -- Archaeological research at Habitation Loyola, French Guiana /Allison BainRéginald AugerYannick Le Roux -- -- Commentary /John de Bry.
