Antigua and the Antiguans
A Full Account of the Colony and its Inhabitants

Historical facts, personal experiences and legends detail the human history of Antigua from the first European landings until 1843.

9781108027779, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

368 pages
21.6 x 2.1 x 14 cm, 0.47 kg

Antigua was named by Columbus in 1493, and permanently colonised by the British in 1632. The next two hundred years were full of upheaval that shaped the Caribbean island's identity: bloody battles, agricultural progress, British immigration and the establishment and then the abolition of the slave trade. The British-born author adopted Antigua as her home, and her love for the island is evident in both volumes. Legends, stories and particular island features of interest are introduced through the author's experiences and anecdotes, giving a full picture of Antigua at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when the island's population and landscape changed rapidly and irrevocably. Volume 2 focusses on the island's natural history and the customs, character and changing position in society of the Caribs and the imported black slave population. An overview of the changes during the period of the slave trade in the Caribbean.

29. Caribs
30. Negroes, their introduction into the New World
31. Negroes, palliations, but not excuses, for former cruelties
32. Negroes, the assertion that negroes are careless of all domestic ties confuted by anecdotes
33. Negroes, superstition
34. Seeming paradoxes explained
35. Negroes, 'shadows' continued
36. Negroes, the crime of poisoning
37. Negroes, a little change for the better
38. Negroes, their amusements
39. Negroes, fondness for the 'Nancy stories'
40. Negroes, further sentences upon 'dress'
41. Negroes, occupations
42. Negroes, employment of the women
43. Negroes, exterior appearance
44. Remarks upon free system
45. A chapter on colour
46. Prejudice
47. Grades among the pure in blood
48. The pure in blood
49. The pure in blood
50. Zoology
51. Zoology
52. Botany
53. Government
Supplemental chapter
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]