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The pirates Laffite : the treacherous world of the corsairs of the Gulf /William C. Davis. "Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812. Labeled as corsairs and buccaneers for methods that bordered on piracy, the brothers ran a privateering cooperative that provided contraband goods to a hungry market and made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf"--Dust jacket. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(729)

The unfortunate Englishmen : or a faithful narrative of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, and five other English mariners, viz. Thomas Rounce, John Holland, Richard Banister, John Balmain and Thomas Robinson, who were taken by a Spanish guarda costa, and set on shore at Porto Cavallo Cockburn, John 1804 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1(729)"17"

Piratical barbarity : or the female captive, comprising the particulars of the capture of the English sloop Eliza-Ann, on her passage from St Johns to Antigua, and the horrid massacre of the unfortunate crew by the pirates, March 12, 1825. And of the unparalleled sufferings of Miss Lucretia Parker ... 1836 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:341.362.1(729)"1825"

Buccaneers, 1620-1700 / text by Angus Konstam ; colour plates by Angus McBride. This book deals with the time when an ambitious and bloodthirsty collection of pirates mounted frequent attacks on Spanish ships in the waters of the Caribbean or 'Spanish Main'. This was known as the 'Buccaneering Era' and preceded the so-called 'Golden Age of Piracy' of the early 18th century. The book gives a history of buccaneering, its organization and methods and focuses on some of its more notorious commanders, such as Christopher Myngs and Henry Morgan. There are numerous black and white and full colour illustrations. There is also a short bibliography. 2000. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(729)"1620/1700"

Relation authentique des trois combats sur mer, donnes a l'Amerique, entre l'escadre francoise, commandee par M le Comte de Guichen, Lieutenant-General des armees navales, et l'Amiral Rodney, commandant l'escadre angloise; donnes le 17 avril, 15 et 19 mai 1780. Avec l'ordre des batailles et les nombres des morts et des blesses. 1780 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:355.49"1780"(729)

A duel and no duel : or the skirmish of the West India heroes: a burlesque account of the ... quarrel between Sir C[halone]r O[g]le, and governor T[relawn]ey, and the assault on his Excellency, in his own house, in Spanish Town, on the 22d of July last ... Honest Sailor, An (pseud) 1743 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 355.49"1743"(729):094:820-1

Caribbean slave revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement / Gelien Matthews. "In this illuminating study, Gelien Matthews demonstrates how slave rebellions in the British West Indies influenced the tactics of abolitionists in England and how the rhetoric and actions of the abolitionists emboldened slaves. Moving between the world of the British Parliament and the realm of Caribbean plantations, Matthews reveals a transatlantic dialectic of antislavery agitation and slave insurrection that eventually influenced the dismantling of slavery in British-held territories."--Back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.8(729)

Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 /Kay Dian Kris. Kris, Kay Dian, c2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7(729)"1700/1840"-052

Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776 / Natalie A. Zacek. A study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the American Revolution, which reshaped the Caribbean as well as the mainland American colonies. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.54(729)

A tree without roots : the guide to tracing British, African and Asian-Caribbean ancestry /Paul Crooks. "From a man who dedicated more than 11 years of his life to uncovering the saga of his African slave ancestors comes a guide for others to capitalise on his informed techniques and discover just what it means to know where one is from. Offering groundbreaking insights into how to delve into one's past, this book is intended both for beginners, educationalists and experienced researchers and provides inspiration to those who believe that their search may be hampered by having mixed parentage or a history of migration through the ages. An instructive guide for those interested in finding out more about their family connections with the Caribbean islands, it offers techniques and approaches that can be applied to any one researching their ancestors around the world."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 929.10720729

Slave women in Caribbean society : 1650-1838 /Barbara Bush. "This is the first book on black slave women to take into account the complexities of gender, race, and class which made their experience of slavery different from that of the black men. Bush challenges certain myths surrounding black women's lives as workers, mothers, and as activists in the vanguard of resistance to slavery."--Provided by the publisher. [2016?]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 305.42

Elizabeth's sea dogs and their war against Spain / Brian Best. Best, Brian, 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.92242

West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783-1807 / David Beck Ryden. "This book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. Recent historians believe that this first blow against slavery was the result of social changes inside Britain and pay little attention to the important developments that took place inside the West Indian slave economy. David Beck Ryden's research illustrates that a faltering sugar economy after 1799 tipped the scales in favor of the abolitionist argument and helped secure the passage of abolition." "Ryden examines the economic arguments against slavery and the slave trade that were employed in the writings of Britain's most important abolitionists. Using a wide range of economic and business data, this study deconstructs the assertions made by both abolitionists and anti-abolitionists regarding slave management, the imperial economy, and abolition."--BOOK JACKET. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209729

Storm of the sea : Indians and empires in the Atlantic's age of sail /Matthew R. Bahar. Wabanaki communities across northeastern North America had been looking to the sea for generations before strangers from the east began arriving there in the sixteenth century. From earliest encounters to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, scattered bands of Native hunter-gatherers came together to command fleets of sailing ships and engage in strategic diplomacy, thwarting English and French imperialism. Storm of the Sea narrates how by the Atlantic's Age of Sail, the People of the Dawn were mobilizing the ocean to achieve a dominion governed by its sovereign masters and enriched by its profitable and compliant tributaries--Provided by publisher. [2019] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 974.004/9734

Bibliographia Jamaicensis : a list of Jamaica books and pamphlets, magazine articles, newspapers, and maps, most of which are in the library of the Institute of Jamaica /by Frank Cundall. Cundall, Frank [1902] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 016(729)

Indentured labor, Caribbean sugar: Chinese and Indian migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 /Walton Look Lai ; introduction by Sidney W. Mintz. " ... Offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies -- with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guiana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model."--Publisher's description. [1993] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/63

Scandal of colonial rule : power and subversion in the British Atlantic during the age of revolution /James Epstein. "In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 'home' and exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(729)"18"

Blood waters : war, disease and race in the eighteenth-century British Caribbean /Nicholas Rogers. "This book paints a picture of the eighteenth-century British Caribbean as a frontier zone in which war, international rivalry, disease and slavery are paramount themes. It explores the lure of the region as a vaunted site of potential wealth and derring-do, the fragility of tropical campaigns, the nature of slave insurrection, and the efforts of indigenous peoples (here, the Miskito of the Mosquito Coast and the Black Caribs of St Vincent) to carve out some autonomy from the British and Bourbon powers. It also explores the mutiny of a slave-ship and its unsuccessful raiding ventures in order to show how the dominant European powers sought to contain piracy in an expanding plantation complex. The book emphasizes the contrarieties of struggle, the difficulties preventing subaltern groups, whether slaves, free blacks, indigenous peoples or soldiers and sailors, from forging broader alliances, and the importance of tropical disease in shaping military outcomes. It warns against romanticizing resistance in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, showing that it was instead a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.9/03

Surviving slavery in the British Caribbean / Randy M. Browne. "Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another. Grounded in the nineteenth-century British colony of Berbice, one of the Atlantic world's best-documented slave societies and the last frontier of slavery in the British Caribbean, Browne argues that the central problem for most enslaved people was not how to resist or escape slavery but simply how to stay alive. Guided by the voices of hundreds of enslaved people preserved in an extraordinary set of legal records, Browne reveals a world of Caribbean slavery that is both brutal and breathtakingly intimate. Field laborers invoked abolitionist-inspired legal reforms to protest brutal floggings, spiritual healers conducted secretive nighttime rituals, anxious drivers weighed the competing pressures of managers and the condition of their fellow slaves in the fields, and women fought back against abusive masters and husbands. Browne shows that at the core of enslaved people's complicated relationships with their enslavers and one another was the struggle to live in a world of death."--Provided by the publisher 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.4

Secret cures of slaves : people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /Londa Schiebinger. "In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in the Atlantic World, exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. She traces the development of a colonial medical complex from the 1760s, when a robust experimental culture emerged in the British and French West Indies, to the early 1800s, when debates raged about banning the slave trade and, eventually, slavery itself. Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly supplied, plantations. But not all knowledge was equal. Highlighting the violence and fear endemic to colonial struggles, Schiebinger explores aspects of African medicine that were not put to the test, such as Obeah and vodou. This book analyzes how and why specific knowledges were blocked, discredited, or held secret."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 610.72/408996073

Buccaneers of the Caribbean : how piracy forged an empire /Jon Latimer. The book focuses on what the author calls buccaneers, or private men-of-war, operating in the Caribbean basin on behalf of English, French, and Dutch interests during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. The primary argument made is that these buccaneers were not purely pirates, but that they often operated with the approval (tacit or implied) of their countries of origin, and were instrumental in those countries gaining a foothold in the Caribbean. It begins with the example of the raid by Sir Francis Drake on Santo Domingo, Espanola (Hispaniola) in 1585, with support from Queen Elizabeth I. Amongst the other examples of buccaneers presented are Dutch admiral Piet Heyn, English sailors William Dampier and Sir Henry Morgan, and Frenchman Jean-David Nau, known as L'Ollonais. The book charts the role of the buccaneers in undermining the Spanish Empire in the Americas, through persistent attacks on vessels carrying wealth from the New World. Illustrations include portraits of Piet Heyn, Robert Rich (2nd Earl of Warwick), Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs, Sir Henry Morgan, Francis L'Ollonais, Henry Bennet (1st Earl of Arlington), George Monck (1st Duke of Albemarle), and William Dampier. Maps also depict the routes taken by Henry Morgan on Panama and Portobelo, as well as the Battles of Portobelo (1668) and Maracaibo (1669). 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(729)

Born to be hanged : the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the South Seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune /Keith Thomson. "The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers-gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become legends. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era - a story not given its full due until now. Inspired by the intrepid forays of pirate turned Jamaican governor Captain Henry Morgan - yes, that Captain Morgan - the company crosses Panama on foot, slashing its way through the Darien Isthmus, one of the thickest jungles on the planet, and liberating a native princess along the way. After reaching the South Sea, the buccaneers, primarily Englishmen, plunder the Spanish Main in a series of historic assaults, often prevailing against staggering odds and superior firepower. A collective shudder racks the western coastline of South America as the English pirates, waging a kind of proxy war against the Spaniards, gleefully undertake a brief reign over Pacific waters, marauding up and down the continent. With novelistic prose and a rip-roaring sense of adventure, Keith Thomson guides us through the pirates' legendary two-year odyssey. We witness the buccaneers evading Indigenous tribes, Spanish conquistadors, and sometimes even their own English countrymen, all with the ever-present threat of the gallows for anyone captured. By fusing contemporaneous accounts with intensive research and previously unknown primary sources, Born to Be Hanged offers a rollicking account of one of the most astonishing pirate expeditions of all time." 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 972.87/02

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