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.
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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.
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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.
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1 vol, "[A]ddress poetry in general, relating the poetry he writes to the poetry he sees around him. It is in many ways a fierce defense of the beauty and timelessness of both poetry, and the Caribbean." (Amazon.com)
Danticat,Edwidge (Author) and New York (Series Editor)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
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Vintage Books
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At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her., 234 p
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Reprint of Mrs. Carmichael, Domestic manners and social condition of the white, coloured, and Negro population of the West Indies (London, Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1833)., 2 vols
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2 vols., Excerpt from Five Years' Residence in the West Indies, Vol. 1:
I Should have dedicated this work to one of the kindest men and best Governors that the West Indies ever had ... but that his Excellency was afraid of my truthful revelations. He had seen, and heard read, parts of my MS., and had observed, "I am sorry to say that what you have written is but too true; yet at home they are not aware of it, though it deserves to be made known to all England; but, there, it will not be believed." Why not believed? - because Policy, not Truth, governs the world; and the West Indies in particular; so we have all but given up these magnificent islands to the barbarian, to lapse once more into a mere lair for the negro - not to the aboriginal inhabitant, but to a savage ten times worse, brought four thousand miles to repress the civilization which otherwise might, by a possibility, have flourished there. "The Ethiop cannot change his skin, nor the white man amalgamate with the black."
Bigelow,John (Author) and Scholnick, Robert J. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Location:
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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.
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18.3 Linear Feet
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"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
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Translation of: The pearl of the Antilles; or, An artist in Cuba.
Originally published: London, H.S. King, 1873., 308 P., "Cuba having lately become a prominent object of attention, both to Europe and America, I venture to think that any trustworthy information that can be given respecting it, may prove acceptable to the reader. I approach my task with no great pretensions, but yet with an experience acquired by many years' residence in the Island, and an intimate intercourse with its inhabitants. I arrived there in 1864, when Cuba was enjoying uninterrupted peace and prosperity, and my departure took place in the first year of her adversity. Having thus viewed society in the Island under the most opposite conditions, I have had various and ample opportunities of studying its institutions, its races and its government; and in availing myself of these opportunities I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to avoid those matters which are alike common to life in Spain and in Cuba." --The Author
