I think my favourite is Lancashire Archives in Preston, UK, mainly for nostalgic reasons (but it also has all the nice things you would hope an archive would have, helpful staff, fantastic collections, good facilities, etc).
Verene Shepherd's *Maharani's Misery* (UWI Press, 2002) is based around the records of an inquiry into the suspicious death of an indentured immigrant from India to Guyana in 1865. The second half of the book is republishing some of the witness statements.
I'm glad they've lightened up a little since
Letting the examiners have a stab at it first! Just submitted 3 weeks ago. But hopefully can turn it into something in due course.
Exactly, but it's useful to estimate if you want to backtrack from the English imports to what was actually exported from the Caribbean initially.
I was inclined to think about 15% lost in transit as Bryan Edwards suggested in the 1790s.
Sadly, unlike the English Customs Ledgers, the Jamaican Shipping Lists are incomplete and can only be used as comparators in certain years.
My research suggests a significant volume was also lost in transit.
Probably, although he uses CUST 3, TNA, which only reflects imports to England and Wales, and does not include reflect imports to Ireland, Scotland, or British North America. Also does not necessarily reflect total sugar grown in British Caribbean as it likely includes smuggled French sugar.
Looks great! Hope it goes well.
Well it's Trini beer!
Just published a new piece for The Lion & the Dragon, the magazine of Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life. It dives into some colourful episodes of officer misconduct during the Napoleonic Wars. If duelling, disorder, and general drama are your thing, have a look:
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get working on those hogsheads!
Oh, sorry, for discussions see Trevor Burnard, 'An Essay on Sources', in *Planters, Merchants, and Slaves* (2015), pp. 274-275, and Christer Petley, ‘Managing “Property”: The Colonial Order of Things within Jamaican Probate Inventories’, Journal of Global Slavery 6 (2021): 81–107.
A classic example would be the Jamaican inventories, originally created to value the property of the recently deceased, but used by several historians for various purposes, from the taxonomy of slave names through to analyses of who funded the expansion of plantations.
Congratulations, looks to be a major contribution to Caribbean urban history.
The Library Company of Philadelphia will become part of Temple Libraries
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In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII.
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I would add that, as Jamaica's plantation economy grew in the 18th c, its reliance on indentured servants (the exported paupers) decreased. In general, in the West Indies indentured servants were more important in the 17th c, whereas the British workhouse system was an 18th c creation.
I'm not very convinced that the phenomenon they attempt to describe deserves to be called a "nexus". Slave traders no doubt helped set up and run workhouses in their own towns but I imagine that came more from a paternalistic desire to improve their own vicinity than a great transatlantic scheme.
Reported, hoping for a speedy resolution
Possibly Transkribus?
Yes, that is what I have done in the past
Working on early 1700s Jamaica, what is the best and clearest phrase to use to succinctly refer to the 11-ish continental colonies of British America? Just "continental British America"? Any other ideas?
Great article. Should help contextualise some things I talk about in my thesis, exploring enslaved doctors/healers in Kingston.
Can't even write an email with that few citations!
Have been having some problems with it since yesterday evening.
Similar thing in my thesis with books titled "History of Jamaica", or words to that effect.
Good news! There is already a book on Morice. Matthew David Mitchell, *The Prince of Slavers*. I have used it in my thesis research.
Some excellent merchants' marks at the Library Company of Philadelphia
