... Calabar Coffee Martinique Moreno Fraginals Manuel St Kitts BritishWest Indies St Lucia BritishWest Indies TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database Trinidad British West Indies Emancipados in Cuba Uruguay transatlantic slave trade Bantulands West Central Africa Mozambique British West Indies Brazil...

...This chapter discusses the intensification of local New England abolitionist activity in the 1840s around the ritual commemoration of British West Indian Emancipation. Abolitionists clearly believed that the government would impose political limits against the British West Indies despite...

... immense empire. In contrast, the British West Indies—suffering from a legacy of slavery and the indifference of the home government—entered the twentieth century in dire economic straits, still largely dependent on sugar. The Bahamas was worse off still and, except for the occasional “boom” brought...

... Anglicanism exhibited by T. F. Buxton or Richard Whately. The connection of some prominent Tractarians to the slave economy (Manning, Gladstone, Robert Wilson, John Bowden) and others to abolitionism (Acland, Allies, Robert and Henry Wilberforce) will be revealed. abolitionism British West Indies Chrysostom...

... for the Advancement of Colored People Richards Arthur F White Walter Churchill Winston food and supply shortages WWII Puerto Rico relief work AACC involvement in Welles Sumner Battle of the Atlantic British West Indies France sovereignty disclaimer U S Taft Robert West Indies Gater Sir George JLP...

... Guadeloupe civilization civilizing mission Civil Rights Movement USA resilience International Criminal Court state developmentalism Caribbean sovereignty peasantry nation-building British West Indies state violence Jamaica Haiti There are two stories that Haiti opens for political anthropology...

...This book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety of migratory settings, within a unique geo-political context. Taking...

...Table 21.1. Exports of sugar from the British West Indies, 1820–1899 (tons per year)   Barbados Leeward Islands Jamaica Windward Islands Trinidad, British Guiana Total 1820–29 11,946 16,910 72,051 32,495 50,846 184,248 1830...

... influence military styles in the British West Indies? What sort of race, class, and masculinity issues impacted on the making and use of military dress in colonial Jamaica? How did military dress contort and re-image the black man’s body within the confines of colonial society? The chapter argues...

... in the US, and anti-Garveyism Communist activity in the British West Indies. The result of this joint project was an amalgamated anti-racism initiative, American rather than Caribbean. In practical terms, the inclusion of race in the Communist agenda caused a severing of the traditional ties between...

..., noting the unique ways in which he revealed the past through prose. The chapter specifically reevaluates Williams’ arguments about the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, as well as the critiques they received, from the perspective of Atlantic slavery and the world economy. By examining...

...This chapter is concerned with the islands, and parts of the mainland, which were colonised by the British from the early seventeenth century and named as the British West Indies. The British West Indian colonies formed a link between North and South America and were strategically vital...

... Selina in May 1831. It also considers the implications of the passage of the 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act for the anti-slavery campaign and highlights the abolition of slavery throughout the British West Indies in August 1838, three months after Macaulay's death. 1 The Tory party was split...

... Churchill Winston Depression Great Garvey Marcus Great Depression Haiti Harlem migration to U S and Britain New York City pre‐WWII period geopolitics of Roosevelt administration bases U S Bases‐for‐Destroyers Deal Britain Great British West Indies Good Neighbor Policy inter‐American relations...

... Standing Closer Association Committee SCAC Trinidad United States British Guiana Guyana British West Indies East Indians JPL Jamaican Progressive League PNP People's National Party politics socialism Manleys PNP's universal suffrage Atlantic alliance vs decolonization Churchill Winston...

... West Indies West Indies Federation Cold War decolonization Caribbean Jamaican referendum bauxite Eric Williams Chaguaramas Castro Inter-American relations The Castro earthquake and its aftershocks kept rumbling in the weeks following the January 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy. The new...

..., the impulse for social reform, and chattel slavery shaped an independent national church plagued by internal divisions on theological and regional lines. In Canada, the same theological issues intertwined with questions of political establishment and continuing ties to Britain. The British West Indies were...

... farmers to increase their production, but the increase was not enough to affect imports significantly. In 1939, for example, wheat was grown on 1.76 million acres, up from about 1.2 million acres in 1931. British West Indies European Community First World War Germany Gold Coast India Malaya Nigeria...

...This chapter focuses on the third phase in the historiography of the British West Indies by Waddell. Waddell contended that this phase began in the early 1950s and, when he wrote, was ‘as yet in its early stages’. This phase, he predicted, ‘may be expected to be dominated by the West Indian...