Colonial Caribbean.

Colonial Caribbean.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:	Colonial Caribbean (Adam Matthew Digital (Firm))
Imprint:	Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, [2021]-
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English Unknown
Subject:	Great Britain. -- Colonial Office -- Archives -- Databases. Great Britain. -- Colonial Office Colonies West Indies, British -- History -- Sources -- Databases. West Indies, British -- Colonization -- History -- Sources -- Databases. Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- Sources -- Databases. Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- Sources -- Databases. Caribbean Area -- History -- Sources. West Indies, British -- History -- Sources. Caribbean Area West Indies -- British West Indies Electronic reference sources. Database databases. Archives Databases History Sources Databases.
Format:	E-Resource Map Journal
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12726688

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Subtitle: Colonial Office files from the National Archives, United Kingdom
Title varies:	Colonial Caribbean : Colonial Office files from the National Archives, UK
Other title:	Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832. Colonial government and abolition, 1833-1849. Economic change and indentured labour, 1850-1870.
Other authors / contributors:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), issuing body. National Archives (Great Britain), issuing body. British Library, issuing body.
Date / volume:	Began in 2021.
Notes:	Includes contemporary essays, video interview, and individual introductory guides for each colony. Interface in English; contents chiefly in English, with some content in French and Spanish. A few items contain text in Dutch, Danish, German, Latin, or Arabic. Contents viewed on September 22, 2022; title from home page.
Summary:	Digital resource covering three centuries of Caribbean history from 1624 to 1870 drawn from the archives of the British Colonial Office. Records include: administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes of council meetings, and details of plantation life, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries across the region, and the growing concern of absentee landlords. The colonies include: Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Berbice, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, British Virgin Islands, Curaçao, Demarara, Dominica, Essequibo, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Bartholomew, St. Christopher (St. Kitts), St. Croix, Santo Domingo, St. Eustatius, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, Suriname, Tobago, Tortola, Trinidad, and Turks and Caicos.