The British West Indies during the American Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 1988
ISBN: 978-90-6765-228-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 16 mm x 24 mm

Reihe: Caribbean Series

This study deals with the economic and political impact of the American War of Independence (1775-1783) on the development of the British West Indian colonies. On the basis of extensive archival material and statistical data, the author demonstrates that the American Revolution not only cut off the British West Indies from its main source of food and plantation supplies, but also sparked a continuous fall in the production of sugar and other staples, leading to the economic decline of the sugar colonies at the end of the eighteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carrington, Selwyn H.H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Abbreviations

I Introduction
II The West Indian Economies before 1775
III West Indian Trade Relations to 1775
IV West Indian Trade and the American War, 1776-1783
V British Colonial Merchants and American Trade, 1775-1783
VI American Privateers and the West Indies, 1776-1783
VII A Struggle for Survival; The Planters and the American War, 1776-1783
VIII Recalcitrant Assemblies; Politics in Jamaica and Barbados, 1769-1783
IX American Sympathisers; Politics in the Ceded Islands, 1764-1779
X The ‘Gallo-American Principled Party’; Politics in the Leeward Islands, 1764-1783
XI Conclusion; West Indian Response to a New Relationship, 1783-1787

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Selwyn H.H. Carrington (1937) was born in Tobago. He studied history and English at Sir George Williams (now Concordia) University, Montreal. In 1975 the University of London awarded him a Ph.D. in history, his dissertation being an earlier version of this book. Since September 1980, Dr. Carrington has lectured at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.