Hubs of empire : the Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean /
Mulcahy, Matthew,1968-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Rethinking Regions in Colonial British America -- Chapter One. Plundering and Planting the Greater Caribbean -- The Greater Caribbean -- Native Peoples and Native Societies -- Early English Incursions : Privateering and the Tobacco Trade -- Colonization of the Leeward Islands and Barbados -- Chapter Two. The Sweet Negotiation of Sugar -- Tobacco and Cotton Societies -- "This King of Sweets" -- The Rise of Slavery -- Leeward Island Transitions -- Chapter Three. Jamaica -- Jamaica and the Western Design -- Planting, Plunder, and Trade -- "A Constant Mine" -- Chapter Four. "Carolina in ye West Indies" -- The Colony of a Colony -- The Rice Revolution -- The Greater Lowcountry -- Chapter Five. "In Miserable Slavery" -- The Slave Trade -- The World of Work -- The Reaper's Garden -- Family Life, Culture, and Religion -- Resistance and Rebellion -- Chapter Six. Creole Societies -- Social Divisions -- Life in a Region of Death -- Women and Family Life -- Social and Cultural Life -- Chapter Seven. Trade, Politics, and War in the Eighteenth Century -- "A Grand Marine Empire" -- Local and Imperial Politics -- Warfare -- Eighteenth Century Conflicts -- The Treaty of Paris -- Epilogue: The Political Crises of 1760s -- Essay on Sources.
Regionalism
Regionalism
Slavery
Slavery
Slavery
Plantation life
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