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Journal articles on the topic "Plantations – Barbados"

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Beckles, Hilary McD. "Plantation Production and White “Proto-Slavery”: White Indentured Servants and the Colonisation of the English West Indies, 1624-1645." Americas 41, no. 3 (January 1985): 21–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007098.

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Two dominant features of agricultural history in the English West Indies are the formation of the plantation system and the importation of large numbers of servile labourers from diverse parts of the world—Africa, Europe and Asia. In Barbados and the Leeward Islands, the backbone of early English colonisation of the New World, large plantations developed within the first decade of settlement. The effective colonisation of these islands, St. Christopher (St. Kitts) in 1624, Barbados 1627, Nevis 1628, Montserrat and Antigua 1632, was possible because of the early emergence of large plantations which were clearly designed for large scale production, and the distribution of commodities upon the world market; they were instrumental in forging an effective and profitable agrarian culture out of the unstable frontier environment of the seventeenth century Caribbean. These plantations, therefore, preceded the emergence of the sugar industry and the general use of African slave labour; they developed during the formative years when the production of tobacco, cotton and indigo dominated land use, and utilised predominatly European indentured labour. The structure of land distribution and the nature of land tenure Systems in the pre-sugar era illustrate this. Most planters who accelerated the pace of economic growth in the late 1640's and early 1650's by the production of sugar and black slave labour, already owned substantial plantations stocked with large numbers of indentured servants.

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Handler, Jerome S. "Escaping slavery in a Caribbean plantation society : marronage in Barbados, 1650s-1830s." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 71, no. 3-4 (January 1, 1997): 183–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002605.

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Disputes the idea that Barbados was too small for slaves to run away. Author describes how slaves in Barbados escaped the plantations despite the constraints of a relatively numerous white population, an organized militia, repressive laws, and deforestation. Concludes that slave flight was an enduring element of Barbadian slave society from the 17th c. to emancipation.

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Giovannetti, Jorge L. "Subverting the Master's Narrative: Public Histories of Slavery in Plantation America." International Labor and Working-Class History 76, no. 1 (2009): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547909990111.

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AbstractThis article examines public representations of slavery on plantation sites devoted to heritage tourism in the Americas. Plantations of various colonial backgrounds are compared in terms of the narratives they present, finding that the history of slavery is largely hidden in Barbados and Puerto Rico, while addressed more explicitly (although still problematically) in the Brazilian and Cuban cases. The article highlights the importance of tour guides and site administrators in the production of histories of slavery and advocates for a more proactive role of historians in the production of public histories of slavery and for more productive and instructive discussions on this thorny topic.

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Rosenthal, Caitlin C. "From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750–1880." Enterprise & Society 14, no. 4 (December 2013): 732–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/es/kht086.

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From Memory to Mastery explores the development of commercial numeracy and accounting in America and the English-speaking Atlantic world between 1750 and 1880. Most histories of accounting begin in the factories of England and New England, largely ignoring slave economies. I analyze both traditional sites of innovation, including textile mills and iron forges, and also southern and West Indian plantations. Along several dimensions, the calculative practices of slave owners advanced ahead of northern merchants and manufacturers, and many recorded and analyzed the productivity of their human capital with cruel precision. Following threads from Jamaica and Barbados to the American South, I show how plantation power relations stimulated the development of new accounting practices. The control of planters over their slaves made data easier to collect and more profitable to use. Commercial recordkeeping also expanded in free factories, but in different ways than on southern plantations. The mobility of labor made accounting necessary for keeping track of wages but relatively futile for detailed productivity analysis.

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Marcin, Freddy. "From Plantations to University Campus: The Social History of Cave Hill, Barbados." Caribbean Quarterly 64, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 356–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2018.1480329.

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POST, CHARLES. "Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantations Agriculture in Early Barbados - by Russell R. Menard." Journal of Agrarian Change 8, no. 1 (December 12, 2007): 144–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2007.00166_1.x.

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Jacoberger, Nicole A. "Sugar Rush: Sugar and Science in the British Caribbean." Britain and the World 14, no. 2 (September 2021): 128–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/brw.2021.0369.

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This article examines the contrasting evolution in sugar refining in Jamaica and Barbados incentivized by Mercantilist policies, changes in labor systems, and competition from foreign sugar revealing the role of Caribbean plantations as a site for experimentation from the eighteenth through mid-nineteenth century. Britain's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century protectionist policies imposed high duties on refined cane-sugar from the colonies, discouraging colonies from exporting refined sugar as opposed to raw. This system allowed Britain to retain control over trade and commerce and provided exclusive sugar sales to Caribbean sugar plantations. Barbadian planters swiftly gained immense wealth and political power until Jamaica and other islands produced competitive sugar. The Jamaica Assembly invested heavily in technological innovations intended to improve efficiency, produce competitive sugar in a market that eventually opened to foreign competition such as sugar beet, and increase profits to undercut losses from duties. They valued local knowledge, incentivizing everyone from local planters to chemists, engineers, and science enthusiasts to experiment in Jamaica and publish their findings. These publications disseminated important findings throughout Britain and its colonies, revealing the significance of the Caribbean as a site for local experimentation and knowledge.

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Wood, Beverley P., Frank Gumbs, and John V. Headley. "Dissipation of Atrazine and Two N‐Dealkylated Metabolites in Soils of Sugarcane Plantations Under Field Conditions in Barbados." Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 36, no. 4-6 (March 2005): 783–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1081/css-200043386.

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Mulcahy, Matthew. "Weathering the Storms: Hurricanes and Risk in the British Greater Caribbean." Business History Review 78, no. 4 (2004): 635–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25096952.

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The risk of hurricanes made planting in the British Greater Caribbean, a region stretching from Barbados through South Carolina, an especially volatile and uncertain business during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The storms were a new experience for European colonists, and they quickly became the most feared element of the region's environment. Hurricanes routinely leveled plantations and towns, destroyed crops and infrastructure, and claimed hundreds of lives. The widespread destruction resulted in significant losses for planters and necessitated major reconstruction efforts. Most planters survived these economic shocks, often with the help of outside credit, but at times hurricanes were the breaking point for smaller or heavily indebted planters. The profits that came from sugar and rice kept planters rebuilding, but the threat posed by the storms shaped the experience of plantership in the region throughout the period.

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Guharajan, Roshan, Nicola K. Abram, Mohd Azzumar Magguna, Benoît Goossens, Siew Te Wong, Senthilvel K. S. S. Nathan, and David L. Garshelis. "Does the Vulnerable sun bear Helarctos malayanus damage crops and threaten people in oil palm plantations?" Oryx 53, no. 4 (December 4, 2017): 611–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605317001089.

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AbstractLargely as a result of the expansion of oil palm Elaeis guineensis, forest fragmentation has occurred on a large scale in Borneo. There is much concern about how forest-dependent species, such as the Vulnerable sun bear Helarctos malayanus, can persist in this landscape. The absence of sufficient natural food in forest fragments could drive sun bears into oil palm plantations, where they risk coming into conflict with people. We interviewed oil palm plantation workers and farmers in the Lower Kinabatangan region of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, to ascertain if sun bears were utilizing plantations, if they were causing damage to the crop, and how the bears were perceived by people. To obtain a comparative baseline we extended these questions to include other species as well. We found that bears were rarely encountered in plantations and were not considered to be destructive to the oil palm crop, although they were generally feared. Other species, such as macaques Macaca spp., bearded pigs Sus barbatus, and elephants Elephas maximus, had more destructive feeding habits. Sun bears could use this readily available food resource without being targeted for retribution, although incidental human-related mortality remains a risk. Although bears could gain some nutritional benefit from oil palm, plantations do not provide the diversity of food and cover available in a natural forest.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Plantations – Barbados"

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Bergman, Stephanie. "Building Freedom: Nineteenth Century Domestic Architecture on Barbados Sugar Plantations." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539720281.

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Munson, Susannah. "Genetic Admixture and Tooth Size in an Enslaved Population from Newton Plantation, Barbados." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/958.

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This study examined the amount of European genetic admixture in the enslaved African population from Newton Plantation, Barbados. Newton Plantation was a British sugar plantation from the 17th to 19th centuries. Approximately 150 individuals were recovered from an unmarked slave cemetery during archaeological investigations in the 1970s and 1990s. Using maximum mesiodistal and buccolingual tooth measurements of the available teeth from the individuals in the cemetery, Newton was compared to nineteen comparative samples of African, European, African American and European American populations that date from the time of British colonization to the 20th century. Previous European admixture estimations in the Newton Plantation cemetery sample were 5-10% (Corruccini et al., 1982; Ritter, 1991); this study found similar rates of admixture in the population (5.38-10.25%). Because of social practices in the Caribbean during the time of slavery, European admixture could have resulted in preferential treatment of slaves with such genetic background.

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Shuler, Kristrina Andrea. "Health, history, and sugar : a bioarchaeological study of enslaved Africans from Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies /." Available to subscribers only, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1068215131&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Books on the topic "Plantations – Barbados"

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Sweet negotiations: Sugar, slavery, and plantation agriculture in early Barbados. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006.

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Barrow, Christine. The plantation heritage in Barbados: Implications for food security, nutrition and employment. Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1995.

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Englishmen transplanted: The English colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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The Quaker community on Barbados: Challenging the culture of the planter class. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.

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Testimony of an Irish slave girl. New York: Viking, 2002.

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Johnson, Stewart. Reading to Barbados and Back: Echoes of British History - the Tudor Family of Haynes of Reading. Book Guild Publishing, Limited, 2011.

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From Plantations to University Campus: The Social History of Cave Hill, Barbados. University of the West Indies Press, 2013.

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Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados. University of Virginia Press, 2014.

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Paugh, Katherine. Conceiving Fertility in the Age of Abolition. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789789.003.0004.

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The story of the Afro-Caribbean midwife Doll illuminates the politics of midwifery on Newton plantation in Barbados. It is well known that midwives wielded a great deal of power, but the racial dynamics of that power have received less attention. Doll’s story indicates that she vied with white women for the position of midwife, and that the former were viewed by the plantation’s white managers as more responsible guardians of the reproduction of the labor force. Plantation managers therefore eventually took steps to replace Doll with a white midwife. The Newton ledgers allow us to correlate the timing of pivotal moments in Doll’s career with pivotal moments in the political history of the Atlantic world. Her rise to power came during the massive disruptions caused by the American Revolution, and her removal from office came during the backlash against elite Afro-Barbadians caused by the Haitian Revolution.

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Newman, Simon P. New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

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Reilly, Matthew C. "The Politics of Work, “Poor Whites,” and Plantation Capitalism in Barbados." In Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, 375–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12760-6_16.

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Smith, Frederick H., and Hayden F. Bassett. "The Role of Caves and Gullies in Escape, Mobility, and the Creation of Community Networks among Enslaved Peoples of Barbados." In Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean. University Press of Florida, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400035.003.0002.

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While the layout of plantation slave villages demonstrate a great deal of planter control, the private landscapes of enslaved peoples offer insights into the activities and experiences where the reach of the planter was more limited. Archaeological investigations of the caves and gullies surrounding St. Nicholas Abbey sugar plantation in St. Peter, Barbados offer insights into the activities that some enslaved plantation workers pursued. The gullies winding between St. Nicholas Abbey, the tenantry of Moore Hill, Pleasant Hall plantation and other estates in St. Peter contain a series of caves, many of which possess material culture, including ceramics, clay tobacco pipes, and black bottle glass. These caves, as liminal spaces on the landscape between adjoining plantations, appear to have served as meeting areas for enslaved peoples and later free workers. The privacy these spaces afforded spurred physical mobility and social interaction between enslaved peoples from surrounding villages, and may have fostered activities that were not permitted in the public sphere, such as gaming and leisure. Gullies are thus viewed as conduits and corridors that connected communities in the plantation-dominated landscape of Barbados and offered a temporary respite from the challenges of plantation life.

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Martínez-Fernández, Luis. "Deceivingly Sweet." In Key to the New World. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400325.003.0009.

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This chapter discusses the nature of the sugar plantation as a distinctive socio-economic system characterized by the sugar and slavery binomial. It also discusses slave and free black resistance to that system. The emergence of Cuba’s first sugar plantations, I argue, while transformative, did not turn the island upside down (or right side up), as was the case in islands such as Barbados. That said, Cuba’s early “sugar revolt” had the same kind of injurious repercussions of “sugar revolutions” throughout the region: the expansion of African slavery and manifold destructive, even evil, economic and social ramifications.

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Beinart, William, and Lotte Hughes. "Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Caribbean Plantations." In Environment and Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.003.0007.

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The Atlantic world became Britain’s main early imperial arena in the seventeenth century. Subsequent to Ireland, North America and the Caribbean were the most important zones of British settler colonialism. At the northern limits of settlement, around the Atlantic coast, the St Lawrence River, the Great Lakes and on the shores of the Hudson Bay, cod fisheries and fur-trading networks were established in competition with the French. This intrusion, while it had profound effects on the indigenous population, was comparatively constrained. Secondly, British settlements were founded in colonial New England from 1620. Expanding agrarian communities, based largely on family farms, displaced Native Americans, while the ports thrived on trade and fisheries. In the hotter zones to the south, both in the Caribbean and on the mainland, slave plantations growing tropical products became central to British expansion. Following in Spanish footsteps, coastal Virginia was occupied in 1607 and various Caribbean islands were captured from the 1620s: Barbados in 1627, and Jamaica in 1655. The Atlantic plantation system was shaped in part by environment and disease. But these forces cannot be explored in isolation from European capital and consumption, or the balance of political power between societies in Europe, Africa, and America. An increase in European consumer demand for relatively few agricultural commodities—sugar, tobacco, cotton, and to a lesser extent ginger, coffee, indigo, arrowroot, nutmeg, and lime—drove plantation production and the slave trade. The possibility of providing these largely non-essential additions for British consumption arose from a ‘constellation’ of factors ‘welded in the seventeenth century’ and surviving until the mid-nineteenth century, aided by trade protectionism. This chapter analyses some of these factors and addresses the problem of how much weight can be given to environmental explanations. Plantations concentrated capital and large numbers of people in profoundly hierarchical institutions that occupied relatively little space in the newly emerging Atlantic order. In contrast to the extractive enterprise of the fur trade, this was a frontier of agricultural production, which required little involvement from indigenous people. On some islands, such as Barbados, Spanish intrusions had already decimated the Native American population before the British arrived; there was little resistance.

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Evans, Nicholas J. "Imposing Identity: Death Markers to ‘English’ People in Barbados, 1627–1838." In Death in the Diaspora, 52–80. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474473781.003.0003.

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The headstones and epitaphs marking the death of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish settlers on the Caribbean island of Barbados provide one of the earliest and most complete examples of British death culture overseas. Whilst the island was dominated by plantation slavery during the period in question, the surviving memorials from this period reveal little trace of the chattel slavery that made the island of great geopolitical importance to the British Empire. Instead the memorials examined here demonstrate a deep attachment to the ‘English’ identities of those who died in diaspora. The chapter compares such death culture with that of Jewish settlement on the island, a stream of evidence that demonstrates the island was a sanctuary for Jewish men, women and children from numerous countries during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Cleland, William. "The State of the Sugar Plantations consider’d, and more especially that of the Island of Barbadoes." In The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607–1783, 263–75. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003074106-35.

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Wright, Richard. "Behind the McGee Case." In The Politics of Richard Wright, 155–58. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813175164.003.0010.

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Originally written for French audiences in 1951, Richard Wright seeks to address the question of how Willie McGee could be executed in Mississippi when doing so was clearly considered unjust in the world of democratic opinion. Wright settles the question of McGee’s innocence in a sentence and so turns to the plantation economy of Mississippi in an effort to contextualize the events. The most backward of US states in educational, cultural, and social terms, nothing had transpired economically since the Civil War to relieve whites’ complete domination of blacks, even though blacks vastly outnumbered whites in terms of population. This meant that whites had to hold state power through ongoing racial violence, terror, and repression. Still, after World War II, brutal lawlessness on the part of the United States became an international liability requiring that a move be made from extralegal to legal lynching. While white Mississippians had not anticipated that McGee’s execution would have negative global consequences, their barbarous standing in the eyes of the world was less significant to them than local pressures to defend white power over blacks. This did not mean that international agitation was without effect: it would force white Americans to think hard before staging another legal lynching and about the price of their continued race prejudice.

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