30 research outputs found

    Rethinking the fall of the planter class

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    This issue of Atlantic Studies began life as a one-day conference held at Chawton House Library in Hampshire, UK, and funded by the University of Southampton. The conference aimed, like this issue, to bring together scholars currently working on the history of the British West Indian planter class in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to discuss how, when, and why the fortunes of the planters went into decline. As this introduction notes, the difficulties faced by the planter class in the British West Indies from the 1780s onwards were an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. The American historian Lowell Ragatz published the first detailed historical account of their fall. His work helped to inform the influential arguments of Eric Williams, which were later challenged by Seymour Drescher. Recent research has begun to offer fresh perspectives on the debate about the decline of the planters, and this collection brings together articles taking a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social histor

    Fear or Security ? Slaveholder Proposals to Arm Black Men in Jamaïca and South Carolina during the American Revolution

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    Comment la minorité blanche des esclavagistes des grandes Antilles à-t-elle réagi à la crainte d\u27une attaque d\u27un ennemi européen de l\u27extérieur, combinée en même temps à la menace d\u27une insurrection des esclaves? La révolution américaine à contribué à soulever cette question lors des assemblées coloniales de la Jamaïque et de la Caroline du sud, en 1778, 1779 et 1782. Les esclaves noirs des deux colonies ont profité de la crise des empires coloniaux de 1775 pour se soulever violemment contre leurs maîtres.Comment la minorité blanche des esclavagistes des grandes Antilles a-t-elle réagi à la crainte d\u27une attaque d\u27un ennemi européen de l\u27extérieur, combinée en même temps à la menace d\u27une insurrection des esclaves ? La révolution américaine a contribué à soulever cette question lors des assemblées coloniales de la Jamaïque et de la Caroline du sud, en 1778, 1779 et 1782. Les esclaves noirs des deux colonies ont profité de la crise des empires coloniaux de 1775 pour se soulever violemment contre leurs maîtres

    Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean

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