Caribbean documents collection, 1699-1959 1760-1930.

Format:

Book

Series:

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantations.

Slavery.

History.

Caribbean Area--Economic conditions.

Caribbean Area.

Economic conditions.

Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Caribbean Area--History--Sources.

Slavery--Caribbean Area.

Plantations--Caribbean Area.

Slave records.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (42 manuscripts; 51 items).

Other Title:

Institution of slavery

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.

Place of Publication:

1760-1930.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

The Caribbean Documents collection, 1699-1959, from the University of Miami, contains correspondence and other documents from Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago, and Cuba. The correspondence offers details about day-to-day life on plantations, such as the conditions of harvests, credit and debt of the plantation, and British abolition of slavery. The collection also includes slave registers, but due to the fragile nature of the aged documents, not all slave registers could be digitized. Other documents include texts relating to the African slave trade, as well as to the connection between the American South and Cuba. Taken together, the documents in this collection paint a picture of the institution of slavery as it spanned centuries in the Caribbean.

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the University of Miami Special Collections.

Local Notes:

aImages from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

OCLC:

822973795

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.