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Originally published in 1917, this book is an investigation of industrial and social conditions in the British West Indies in the effort to reach a better understandinf of the part those islands played in the growth and dissolution of the British empire, including chapters on white labor in the sugar islands, the slave trade, and foreign markets for British sugar.
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INDEX
INDEX
Abercromby, James, colonial agent for N. C., opposes prohibition of trade with foreign W. I., 429.
Absentees, see Absenteeism.
“Act Ships,” 172-173.
Absenteeism, 2, 3; case of Rev. Thomas Barnard of Barbadoes, 11-12; affects appearance of towns, 12; fosters mismanagement and waste, 13; social evils from, in general, 30, 137, in Barbadoes, 31-33; in Jamaica, 33 et seq.; education in England leads to, 33-34; in all sugar colonies, 34-35; controversies between residents and absentees, in Jamaica, 35-38, in Antigua, 38 n. 82; extent of, in St. Christopher, 39 n. 82; wealth and character of absentees in England, 39-41; effect of Jamaica Deficiency Acts on absentees, 51-52; absentees bid for Crown land in St. Christopher, 104; desertion of slaves caused by, 115; expenditures of absentees in England and W. I. compared, 137; absentees in parliament, (1754) 343 n. 3, (1760-3) 334.
Acts, of Antigua: about taxing absentees, 35, 38 n. 82; to obtain servants, 57; to prevent slaves hawking and peddling, 60; about rates of interest, 135; against trade with foreign sugar colonies (1715-16), 220, 228-231, (1721) 232-233; of Barbadoes: about clergy (1704), 9; to encourage emigration to Jamaica (1662), 17 and n. 30; impost on slaves, 71 n. 48; insolvency, 94 n. 11; rates of interest, 135; land bank (1706), 141; to discourage trade with foreign sugar colonies (1715), 220, 223-227; to discourage export of clay (1736), 337; of Jamaica: about fires and arson, 23 n. 39; huts of slaves and sale of munitions to slaves, 23 n. 40; schools, 24 n. 41; gambling, 26; ministers, 27; town of Bath, 26-27; mulattoes, 28; taxing Jews, 29-30; absentees, 33; effect on absentees of Deficiency Law, 35; Crown slaves for public works, 49; importation of whites (1703), 49; imposts on convicts, 56; impost and export taxes on slaves, 79-85; for settling northeastern Jamaica, 112 n. 8; securing land for new settlers, 118 and n. 30; 119-123; rates of interest, 135; making produce legal tender, 139, 151; making specie only legal tender (1751), 139, 153; to raise value of coins (1758), 139, 154, (1688) 147; against trade with French, (1702) 234, (1715) 234, (1721) 235, (1726) 235; to prevent falsifying clearances (1738), 278-279; prohibiting imports from foreign W. I. (1752), 279, 301; preventing entrances and clearances on same day (1756), 279; to prevent smuggling foreign sugar into England through Jamaica (1774), 333 n. 101; of Mass.: embargo on provisions, except to British possessions, (1741) 286, (1755-8) 313; trade with enemy (1744), 287; duties on foreign West India goods imported (1730); 216; of Montserrat: against marriage of whites and negroes, 27 n. 49; rates of interest, 135; to prevent trade with foreign W. I. (1736), 277-278; of Nevis: for enforcing Molasses Act (1752), 301; of N. Y.: against exporting to French (1755-6), 312; of Parliament: to encourage loan of foreign capital to W. I. (1773), 136, 356-357; of 1733 and 1764, 138, 263 and n. 45; to permit direct export of sugar from W. I. to southern Europe (1739), 162, 165, 182-183; to permit colonial ships to carry sugar from W. I. direct to Europe (1742), 183; laying preferential duties in England on British sugar (1657), 219, 236; restricting trade in provisions (1757), 311; of St. Christopher: taxing absentees, 38 n. 82; bill to prevent trade with foreign W. I. (1736), 277-278; bill for enforcement of Molasses Act (1752), 301.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- I. British West India Society in the Eighteenth Century
- II. White Labor in the Sugar Islands
- III. The Slave Trade
- IV. Exclusion of Small Proprietors from Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands
- V. Exclusion of Small Proprietors from Jamaica
- VI. Capital, Credit, and Currency
- VII. Foreign Markets for British Sugar
- VIII. Agitation for Direct Trade between the West Indies and Europe
- IX. International Trade between British North America and the Foreign West Indies, 1686-1730
- X. International Trade between British and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies, 1699-1730
- XI. The Molasses Act, 1730-1733
- XII. Illicit Commerce, 1733-1748
- XIII. Illicit Commerce, 1748-1763
- XIV. The Peace of Paris
- Bibliographical Note
- APPENDICES
- Index