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2. Sugar barons : family, corruption, empire, and war in the West Indies
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Parker,Matthew (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- New York: Walker & Co.
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 446 p., The sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers. The wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture.
3. THE BRITISH ARMY'S UNKNOWN, REGULAR, AFRICAN-WEST INDIAN ENGINEER AND SERVICE CORPS, 1783 TO THE 1840s
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chartrand,RenÉ (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 89(358) : 117-138
- Notes:
- The article discusses engineer and service corps in the British Army which operated during the 18th and 19th centuries and were made up of African, African-American, and West Indian soldiers and laborers. According to the author, the existence of these corps is not readily apparent in the historical record because they depended on commissioned officers from other units for senior command and because for political reasons their funding was taken discreetly from the budgets of other units and government departments. Details on the roles of enslaved soldiers in engineer and service corps are presented. Other topics include the corps' service in Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent, the abolition of slavery in Great Britain, and compensation received by the soldiers.
4. The Cultural Currency of Afro-Caribbeans in Northamptonshire c. 1960-1990
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Watley,George (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Midland History
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(2) : 245-261
- Notes:
- This article addresses how Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbeans c. 1960-1990 were simultaneously part of the transformation from people of the Caribbean with individual island identities or nationalities into Afro-Caribbean British people whilst helping to shape this ethno-racial development. Oral history has been integral in conducting this research. Northamptonshire Black History Association (NBHA) interviews from 2002 to 2005 supplemented the interviews conducted by the author in 2009-10. Economic concepts derived from understanding monetary currencies and flight to quality will be used to help historians understand how culture and its manifestations are forms, and have systems, of exchange. These monetary concepts will also be used to create an understanding of cultural currency, as well as the frameworks for analysing how acquiring strong cultural currencies often leads to a process of exchange for other strong cultural currencies. Northamptonshire Afro-Caribbean organisations and individuals' usage of their historical and developed cultural currencies to obtain greater ethnoracial pride will be illuminated in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR].
5. The Moyne report
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moyne,Walter Edward Guinness, Baron (Author) and Benn,Denis (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- The Report of West India Royal Commission. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by command of his Majesty, July 1945., 480 p., Exposed the horrendous living conditions in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Following the British West Indian labor unrest of 1934–1939, the Imperial Government sent a royal commission to investigate and report on the situation while also offering possible solutions.
6. The Power of "Retributive Justice"*: Punishment and the Body in the Morant Bay Rebellion, 1865
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Flores,Rachael A. (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- District of Columbia: The George Washington University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 112 p., On Wednesday October 11th, 1865, a group of malcontented men and women in Jamaica, a British colony, began a rebellion whose aftershocks echoed well beyond the confines of Morant Bay, the small town where it started. Although the initial rebellion lasted for just a few days, its brutal suppression and the implications that it held for the British Empire sparked a controversy that touched on some of the deepest fissures in British society at that time. At its heart, the rebellion highlighted the contested notions of power within the British imperial system. In Jamaica, disenfranchised local peasants rebelled to challenge a political system that excluded and oppressed them.