Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Caribbean

Proctor, Samuel, Ed., Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Caribbean, Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1976.

Papers read at the Second Annual Bicentennial Symposium sponsored by the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Florida, held at Florida International University, June 1 – 2, 1973.

Table of Contents :

The British Sugar Planters and the Atlantic World, 1763 – 1775, by Richard B. Sheridan.

Entrepreneurs in the British and Spanish Floridas, 1775 – 1821, by William S. Coker.

Commentary by Jack P. Greene.

The West Indian Experience, by Sir Philip Sherlock.

From Endo-deme to Matri-deme: An Interpretation of the Development of Kinship and Social Organization among the Slaves of Jamaica, 1655 – 1830, by Orlando Patterson.

The Slave Population of the British Caribbean: Some Nineteenth Century Variations, by Barry W. Higman.

Commentary by Thomas Mathews.

Archaeological Analysis of Material Culture as a Reflection of Subcultural Differentiation in Eighteenth Century Jamaica, by R. Duncan Mathewson.

From Missionary to Mestizo: Changing Culture of Eighteenth Century St. Augustine, by Charles Fairbanks.

Commentary by John W. Griffin.