Author: Vincent Todd HarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A History of Barbados, 1625-1685
Author: Vincent Todd HarlowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Author: Mac GriswoldPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374266298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, "The Manor" is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering.
Colonial Reports - Annual
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Each number comprises the annual report of a different colony for a particular year.
Colonial Reports--annual
Author: The Roots of Caribbean Identity
Author: Peter A. RobertsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521727456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
"The Roots of Caribbean Identity has as its central elements race, place and language. The book presents a movement from a European construction of Caribbean identity towards a more Caribbean construction. The ways in which the identity of the Caribbean region and the identities of the separate islands within the region were shaped are set out in a chronological sequence, starting from the time of the European encounters with the Amerindians and finishing at the end of the nineteenth century."(extrait de la 4ème de couv.).
A Bibliography of Modern History
Author: Annual Report on Barbados
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
For the File on Empire
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349817775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The English Historical Review
Author: Mandell CreightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Author: