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A sobering three-volume account of 'calamities and crimes' from Columbus to 1816, published in 1827 by naval officer Thomas Southey.
Author : Thomas Southey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1108024505
A sobering three-volume account of 'calamities and crimes' from Columbus to 1816, published in 1827 by naval officer Thomas Southey.
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 1827
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Author : Carla Gardina Pestana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1000559580
This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean. Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies. Volume 1: Conceptualizing the West Indies The texts in this volume chart the growth of English interest in the West Indies, as seen through the publications of the time. Beginning with the Spanish discovery and colonization there followed reports of Spanish cruelty. Gradually the English started to make incursions into the area and this new era of colonization is reflected in the sources. Later publications document the landscape of the islands, the native inhabitants and the other settlers who began to arrive.
Author : T. Southey
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1968
Category : West Indies
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Author : John J. Navin
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1643360558
“The compelling story of a colony besieged by meteorological, epidemiological, economic, and manmade catastrophes only to arise like the phoenix.” —Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln During South Carolina’s settlement, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. John J. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The settlers’ relentless pursuit of wealth set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labor. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony’s first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority. Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.
Author : United States Naval Academy. Library
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Nicole N. Aljoe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319715925
The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant ‘native’ literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence movements of the early twentieth century. However, as recent research has shown, although the printing press did not arrive in the Caribbean until 1718, the roots of Caribbean literary history predate its arrival. This collection contributes to this research by filling a significant gap in literary and historical knowledge with the first collection of essays specifically focused on the literatures of the early Caribbean before 1850.
Author : William F. Keegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0195392302
This volume brings together examples of the best research to address the complexity of the Caribbean past.
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher :
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1907
Category : History, Modern
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Author : Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0817359656
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands The story has been passed through generations for more than two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail. Sometimes misunderstood as the loss of a single ship, it was in fact the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in all of Caribbean naval history. Surviving historical documents and the remains of the wrecked ships in the sea confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is a legend based on a historical event in which HMS Convert, formerly L’Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and 9 of her 58-ship merchant convoy sailing from Jamaica to Britain, wrecked on the jagged eastern reefs of Grand Cayman in 1794. The incident has historical significance far beyond the boundaries of the Cayman Islands. It is tied to British and French history during the French Revolution, when these and other European nations were competing for military and commercial dominance around the globe. The Wreck of the Ten Sail attests to the worldwide distribution of European war and trade at the close of the eighteenth century. In Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail: Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean, Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton focuses on the ships, the people, and the wreck itself to define their place in Caymanian, Caribbean, and European history. This well-researched volume weaves together rich oral folklore accounts, invaluable supporting documents found in archives in the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and France, and tangible evidence of the disaster from archaeological sites on the reefs of the East End.