Barbados, Sun Sea, Superb!
by Roger A. Labrucherie
from Imagenes Press
Barbados, Sun, Sea, Superb! is a photographic-essay coffee-table book about the island of Barbados. It covers, in photographs, maps, and text Barbados's history, culture, people, flora, fauna, geography, and scenery, with a special emphasis on the touristic aspects of the island.
Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados
by Hilary McD. Beckles
from Rutgers University Press
Barbados a World Apart
by Roger A. Labrucherie
from Imagenes Press
Barbados, A World Apart is a photographic-essay coffee-table book about the island of Barbados. It covers, in photographs, paintings, maps, and text Barbados's history, culture, people, flora, fauna, geography, and scenery.
The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843
The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of œ20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human 'property.' In this first comparative analysis of the impact of the award on the colonies, Mary Butler focuses on Jamaica and Barbados, two of Britain's premier sugar islands.
The Economics of Emancipation examines the effect of compensated emancipation on colonial credit, landownership, plantation land values, and the broader spheres of international trade and finance. Butler also brings the role and status of women as creditors and plantation owners into focus for the first time. Through her analysis of rarely used chancery court records, attorneys' letters, and compensation returns, Butler underscores the fragility of the colonial economies of Jamaica and Barbados, illustrates the changing relationship between planters and merchants, and offers new insights into the social and political history of the West Indies and Britain.
Unappropriated People : Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados
Plantation Slavery in Barbados: An Archeological and Historical Investigation
by Harvard University Press
from AuthorHouse
Here is the first detailed investigation of plantation slave life in Barbados from earliest times until 1838. The authors have visited slave village sites, and their intensive excavation of a slave cemetery has yielded a wealth of material pertaining to mortuary practices and other dimensions of social and material life. Handler and Lange have also examined and extensively integrated the written records to amplify and cross-check their findings.
Based on the methodologies of archaeology, history, and ethnography, Plantation Slavery in Barbados explores new ways to reconstruct the culture of a social group that left few historical records. As a description of the organization and development of the plantation system in Barbados, it is a model work in the burgeoning fields of slavery studies, historical anthropology, and Caribbean history.
Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, And Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados
by Russell R. Menard
from University of Virginia Press
A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State
by Hilary McD. Beckles
from Cambridge University Press
As Barbados celebrates 350 years of established parliamentary government, this concise and authoritative history makes a timely appearance, covering the period from the first human settlement by the Amerindians to the present day. Social, political, and economic themes run throughout the book, including detailed aspects of early English colonization, the emergence and eventual abolition of the slave trade, and the development and growth of the sugar industry. Professor Beckles emphasizes the struggles for social equality, civil rights, and material betterment, detailing their continuous flow through the island's history since 1627.
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