On the rim of the Caribbean : colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world / Paul M. Pressly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pressly, Paul M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plantations.

History.

Economic conditions.

Georgia--Economic conditions--18th century.

Georgia.

Commerce (Ga.)--West Indies, British--History--18th century.

Commerce (Ga.).

West Indies, British--Commerce--Georgia--History--18th century.

West Indies, British.

Plantations--Georgia--History--18th century.

Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

xi, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]

Summary:

How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role attained its own distinctive character. Book jacket.

Contents:

The three Georgias

Merging planting elites

The West Indies, cornerstone of trade

Savannah as a "Caribbean" town

Merchants in a Creole society

The slave trade in creating a Black Georgia

The making of the Lowcountry plantation

Georgia's rice and the Atlantic world

Retailing the "baubles of Britain"

The trade in deerskins and rum

Nationalizing the Lowcountry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820335674

0820335673

9780820345031

0820345032

OCLC:

809789692