Author: Warren AlleynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Historical and possible architectural links between the island of Barbados and South Carolina.
The Barbados-Carolina Connection
Author: Warren AlleynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Historical and possible architectural links between the island of Barbados and South Carolina.
South Carolina and Barbados Connections
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984558032
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
South Carolina and Barbados Connections: Selections from the South Carolina Historical Magazine chronicles the efforts of early Barbadians to settle South Carolina in the late seventeenth century and expands our understanding of that remarkable connection. The island of Barbados played a major role in the settlement and development of South Carolina. In this collection of writings from the South Carolina Historical Magazine, many aspects of that Barbadian influence are studied and challenged. This splendid introduction will encourage further readings and stimulate additional research.
Barbados and Scotland, Links 1627-1877
Author: David DobsonPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352639
Category : Barbados
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Lists persons with Scottish surnames listed in a variety of surviving records for Barbados, including church records.
Reproducing the British Caribbean
Author: Juanita De BarrosPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961605X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery
More Auspicious Shores
Author: Caree A. BantonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108429637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Tracing Ancestors in Barbados
Author: Geraldine LanePublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317656
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Caribbean Exchanges
Author: Susan Dwyer AmussenPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the "white woman" in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of "ladyhood" in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.
Sugar in the Blood
Author: Andrea StuartPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030796115X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade—“white gold,” as it was known—had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family’s experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family—its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin—she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world.
The Company They Kept
Author: Lara PutnamPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations. Over the next half-century, short-lived export booms drew tens of thousands of migrants to the region. In Port Limon, birthplace of the United Fruit Company, a single building might house a Russian seamstress, a Martinican madam, a Cuban doctor, and a Chinese barkeep--together with stevedores, laundresses, and laborers from across the Caribbean. Tracing the changing contours of gender, kinship, and community in Costa Rica's plantation region, Lara Putnam explores new questions about the work of caring for children and men and how it fit into the export economy, the role of kinship as well as cash in structuring labor, the social networks that shaped migrants' lives, and the impact of ideas about race and sex on the exercise of power. Based on sources that range from handwritten autobiographies to judicial transcripts and addressing topics from intimacy between prostitutes to insults between neighbors, the book illuminates the connections between political economy, popular culture, and everyday life.
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