See Also: Caribbean Writers
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A History of Tobago by Henry Iles Woodcock (Self, 1867)
A History of the West Indies, Volume 1 , Volume 2, Volume 3 by Thomas Coke (Oxford University, 1810)
A practical view of the present state of slavery in the West Indies; or, An examination of Mr. Stephen's "Slavery of the British West India colonies." by Alexander Barclay, Jamaica (Smith, Elder & Co., 1827)
Containing more particularly an account of the actual condition of the negroes in Jamaica.
Alone in the Caribbean (Being the Yarn of a Cruise in the Lesser Antilles in the Sailing Canoe "Yakaboo") by Frederic Fenger, 1917, Illustrated.
An Empire Divided by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
An Introduction to the History of Trinidad and Tobago by Bridget Brereton (Heinemenn Educational Publishers, 1996)
Archaeology and geoinformatics: case studies from the Caribbean by Basil A. Reid (University of Alabama Press, 2008)
Contending with Destiny: The Caribbean in the 21st Century by Denis Benn, Kenneth O. Hall, Ian Randle Publishers, 2000
Canes and chains: a study of sugar and slavery by Elizabeth M. Halcrow (Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1982)
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Eustace Williams (University of North Carolina, 1944) - Read @ Yale U Library (Overview @ Wikipedia)
Chronological history of the West Indies, Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 by Thomas Southey (1827)
Englishmen transplanted: the English colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660 by Larry Dale Gragg (Oxford University Press, 2003)
HILL
COOLIES. by John Scoble
A Brief Exposure of the Deplorable Condition of
the Hill Coolies in British Guiana and Mauritius, and of the nefarious
means by which they were induced to resort to these Colonies
History of the People of Trinidad & Tobago by Eric Williams (PNM Publishing, 1962) Full text online at University of Florida Library
History of the West Indies ... by Robert Montgomery Martin (1836)
Identity and Secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889-1980 by Learie B. Luke (University of West Indies Press, 2007)
Jamaica Surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by B. W. Higman (UWI Press, 1998)
Manuscript sources for the history of the West Indies by Kenneth E. Ingram (University of West Indies Press, 2000)
Report from Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British Domimions, (J. Haddon, 1833)
with the minutes of evidence, and general index ... August 11, 1832
Slave populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834 by B. W. Higman (University of West Indies Press, 1995)
Slavery, Atlantic trade and the British economy, 1660-1800 by Kenneth Morgan (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Slavery and the British Empire, from Africa to America by Kenneth Morgan (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 by Simon David Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Social life in the Caribbean, 1838-1938 by Bridget Brereton (Heinemenn Educational Publishers, 1985)
Stark's guide-book and history of Trinidad
Including Tobago, Granada, and St. Vincent; also a trip
up the Orinoco and a description of the great Venezuelan pitch lake (c1897)
(Internet Archive, Canada)
Sugar and slaves: the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624 to 1713 by Richard S. Dunn (UNC Press, 1972)
Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 by Richard B. Sheridan (Canoe Press, 1976)
Tobago in wartime, 1793-1815 by K. O. Laurence (University of West Indies Press, 1995)
The Atlantic slave trade by Herbert S. Klein (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
The British colonies : their history, extent, condition, and resources by Robert Montgomery Martin (Tallis, London, 1834)
The Development of the British West Indies 1700 - 1763 by Frank Wesley Pitman (Yale University Press, 1917) (Internet Archive)
The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833 by Lowell Joseph Ragatz (Octagon Books, 1928), at Hathi Trust
The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, - 4th Edition Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 by Bryan Edwards, Daniel M'Kinnen (1805)
The Lesser Antilles in the age of European expansion by Robert L. Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman (University Press of Florida, 1996)
The peoples of the Caribbean: an encyclopedia of archeology and traditional cultures by Nicholas J. Saunders (ABC-CLIO, 2005)
The History of the First West India Regiment, by A. B. Ellis, (Chapman and Hall, 1885) (A Project Gutenberg EBook)
The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from Its Origins to 1914 by J. H. Galloway (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
The West Indies as they are: A Real Picture of Slavery by Richard Bickell (Cambridge University Press, 1825)
The West Indies: patterns of development, culture, and environmental change by David Watts (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
West Indies accounts: essays on the history of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy edited by Roderick A. McDonald (University of West Indies Press, 1996)
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