Watson investigates the emigration of indigenous Amerindians in the West Indies during the period 1834-1900 and their replacement with enslaved Africans. After the emancipation of the slaves in 1833, the poor whites, who used to perform militia service on plantations in the West Indies, were forced to emigrate due to lack of employment opportunities.;
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341 p, A study of representations of Atlantic slavery in the visual arts between 1780 and 1865. It examines paintings, sculptures, prints, textiles, maps, ceramics, jewellery, needlework and theatre. The work also demands that we reconsider how slavery is culturally constructed in the West now.
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84 p, Tabaco, la carta española en la lucha por el control del comercio atlántico / Laura Náter -- Presidios, presidiarios y desertores : los desterrados de Nueva España, 1777-1797 / Jorge L. Lizardi Pollock -- Políticas de defensa de la España borbónica en el Gran Caribe y el papel del virreinato novohispano / Johanna von Grafenstein Gareis -- Las vigías costeras de Yucatán, de la defensa al clandestinaje / Jorge Victoria Ojeda -- El fin de un proyecto colonial en el Caribe : la expedición de Leclerc / Dolores Hernández Guerrero.;
Maintains that the period between 1750 and 1850 represented an age of interrelated revolutions, and events in Haiti constitute an integral part of the history of the Atlantic world
Blouet profiles author Eliza Fenwick. Fenwick, an articulate, intellectual Englishwoman, operated a private school in Bridgetown for the daughters of upper class Barbadian society in the early nineteenth century.;
