Notes
Includes contemporary essays, video interview, and individual introductory guides for each colony.
Interface in English; contents chiefly in English, with some content in French and Spanish. A few items contain text in Dutch, Danish, German, Latin, or Arabic.
Summary
Digital resource covering three centuries of Caribbean history from 1624 to 1870 drawn from the archives of the British Colonial Office. Records include: administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes of council meetings, and details of plantation life, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries across the region, and the growing concern of absentee landlords. The colonies include: Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Berbice, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Demarara, Dominica, Essequibo, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Bartholomew, St. Christopher (St. Kitts), St. Croix, Santo Domingo, St. Eustatius, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Suriname, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad, and Turks and Caicos.
Variant and related titles
Subtitle: Colonial Office files from the National Archives, United Kingdom <November 1, 2021>
Economic change and indentured labor, 1850-1870.
Contents
Module 1. Settlement, slavery, and empire, 1624-1832
Module 2. Colonial government and abolition, 1833-1849
Module 3. Economic change and indentured labour, 1850-1870.
Also listed under
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), publisher.
British Library, issuing body.
National Archives (Great Britain), current owner.