Association of Caribbean Historians 1977 Conference Papers

Association of Caribbean Historians, 1977 Conference Papers, Barbados: Cave Hill, April 3 – 7 1977.

Contents:

1. Foreword

2. Inter-Caribbean Labour Migration
Newton, V. “Aspects of British West Indian Emigration to the Isthmus of Panama, 1850 – 1914”
Rodney, W. “Barbadian Immigration into British Guiana”
Ramesar, M. “The Role of the British West Indian Immigrant Labourers in Trinidad, 1870 – 1921”
Van Soest, J. “The World on an Island: The International Labour Force of Shell in Curacao, 1915 – 1960”

3. Caribbean Piracy: The Seventeenth Century
Burg, B.R. “Pirate Communities in the Seventeenth Century: A Case Study of Homosexual Society”
Rankin, H. “Profile of a Pirate”
Williford, M. “The Women Pirates and Ms”

4. Caribbean Peasantries
Marshall, W.K. “Rock Hall: The Search for the First Free Village in Barbados”
Potter, L. “The Paddy Proletariat and the Dependent Peasantry; East Indian Rice Growers in British Guiana, 1895 – 1920”
Haraksingh, K. “Cane Farming in Trinidad 1919 – 1938: A Quantitative Approach”

5. The Press and the Public in the Caribbean
Tikasingh, G. “The Trinidad Press and the Issue of Immigration During the Nineteenth Century”
Brereton, B. “The Liberal Press of Trinidad, 1869 – 1895”
Samaroo, B. “’The Vanguard of Indian Nationalism in Trinidad’: The East Indian Weekly, 1928 – 1932”

6. Directions for New Research
Buisseret, D.J. “The Study of the Jamaican Landscape”
Handler, J.S. “Mortuary Patterns of Plantation Slaves in Barbados”
Adelaide – Merlande, J. “The Eruption of Mt. Pelee and the Political Situation in Martinique in 1902 - 1903”

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