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.
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
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
333 p, Contents: Plantations, sugar cane, and slavery / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Indian labor and new world plantations : European demands and Indian responses in northeastern Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Slave families on a rural estate in colonial Brazil / Richard Graham -- African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800 / Colin M. MacLachlan -- Encomienda, African slavery, and agriculture in seventeenth-century Caracas / Robert J. Ferry -- Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790 / Philip D. Morgan and Michael L. Nicholls -- Plantations, paternalism, and profitability : factors affecting African demography in the old British Empire / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Tale of two plantations : slave life at Mesopotamia in Jamaica and Mount Airy in Virginia, 1799-1828 / Richard S. Dunn -- Slaves and slave masters on eighteenth century St. John / Karen Fog Olwig -- Tousssaint Louverture and the slaves of the Bréda plantations / David Geggus -- Freedom and oppression of slaves in the eighteenth century Caribbean / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Was the plantation slave a proletarian? / Sidney W. Mintz
