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    1. "One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America": An Analysis of Eighteenth-Century Carriacou

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ryden,David Beck (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring2013
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Interdisciplinary History
    Journal Title Details:
    43(4) : 539-570
    Notes:
    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.

    3. A Critical Edition of Writer Roger Dorsinville's Haitian Memoirs of Africa

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Dorsinville,Roger (Author), Dorsinville,Max (Author), and Dorsinville,Max (Editor)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Lewiston, ME: E. Mellen Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    312 p, Memoirs excerpted from Marche Arriere, v. 2, originally published: Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Editions des Antilles, 1990

    4. A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Beckford,William (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1790
    Published:
    London: Printed for T. and J. Egerton
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    2 vols., Subtitled: With remarks upon the cultivation of the sugar-cane, throughout the different seasons of the year, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view; also observations and reflections upon what would probably be the consequences of an abolition of the slave-trade, and of the emancipation of the slaves.

    7. A Man’s guide to the Caribbean

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Córdova,Señor (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1998
    Published:
    Beverly Hills, CA: Centurion Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    1 microfiche

    9. A Twelve Month's Residence in the West Indies, During the Transition From Slavery to Apprenticeship: With Incidental Notices of the State of Society, Prospects, and Natural Resources of Jamaica and Other Islands

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Madden,Richard Robert (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1970
    Published:
    Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    2 vols