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    1. British capitalism and Caribbean slavery: the legacy of Eric Williams

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Solow,Barbara L. (Editor) and Engerman,Stanley L. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    1987
    Published:
    Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title Details:
    p. 345 p.
    Notes:
    Includes Dunn, "Dreadful Idlers' in the Cane Fields: The Slave Labor Pattern on a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1762-1831," pp. 163-90, 173, 179, 188; Craton and Walvin, "Jamaican Plantation," pp. 134-41; and Long, "History of Jamaica," pp. 2:437-40.

    2. On the treatment and management of the more common West-India diseases (1750-1802)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hutson,J. Edward (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    180 p., Brings together, in one volume, a number of monographs from the mid to late 18th century (the period known as the Age of Reason) on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of African and Creole slaves in the English-speaking Caribbean. Included here are James Grainger’s Essay on the More Common West-Indian Diseases (1764) and book 4 of The Sugar-Cane (1764); book 2 of the Reverend Griffith Hughes’s Natural History of the Island of Barbados (1750); and Benjamin Moseley’s Miscellaneous Medical Observations (1789).

    3. Revolution! : the Atlantic world reborn

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bender,Thomas (Editor), Dubois,Laurent (Editor), and Rabinowitz,Richard (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    London; New York: D Giles Ltd.
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    287 p, A season of revolutions : the United States, France, and Haiti / Thomas Bender -- Insurgents before independence : the revolution of the American people / T.H. Breen -- A port in the storm : Philadelphia's commerce during the Atlantic revolution era / Cathy Matson -- Atlantic revolutions and the age of abolitionism / David Brion Davis and Peter P. Hinks -- The achievement of the Haitian revolution, 1791-1804 / Robin Blackburn -- An African revolutionary in the Atlantic world / Laurent Dubois and Julius S. Scott -- Liberty in black, white, and color : a trans-Atlantic debate / Jeremy D. Popkin -- A vapor of dread : observations on racial terror and vengeance in the age of revolution / Vincent Brown -- One woman, three revolutions : Rosalie of the Poulard nation / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard -- The 1804 Haitian revolution / Jean Casimir -- Curating history's silences : the Revolution exhibition / Richard Rabinowitz.; Explores, largely through illustrations, how three globally influential revolutions transformed politics and culture between 1763 and 1816, from the triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.; Time: Geschichte 1763-1815. 1700 - 1804