Papers from the X Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands

Papers from the X Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, 1978.

The ACH membership includes students, graduate students, faculty, staff of public and government institutions, and independent or retired researchers. While it began under the auspices of history, it now frequently hosts papers and panels on Caribbean literature, art, theatre, archeology, material culture, and identity.

Baa, Enid M., “The Brandenburgers at St. Thomas or the Bordeaux Plantation, 1685 - 1973”

Buisseret, David J., “The Transition from Military to Civilian Rule in 17th Century Jamaica: An Example”

Dalleo, Peter D., “Pirates and Plunderers: Rethinking Bahamian History”

Haraksingh, Kusha, "Estates, Labour and Population in Trinidad, 1870 - 1900"

Rankin, Hugh E., “Portrait of a Pirate”

Samaroo, Brinsley, “The Mirror of War: Trinidad Newspaper Coverage of the First World War, 1914 – 1918”

Marshall, Bernard, "Anglo-Black Carib Rivalry and Subsequent War of 1772 - 1773 in St. Vincent -- A Reassessment"

McAvoy, Muriel, “An Abolitionist View of St. Thomas in 1836, with notes and an introduction”

Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference of Caribbean Historians (Collection of papers)

Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference of Caribbean Historians jointly sponsored by the College of the Virgin Islands and the Association of Caribbean Historians, St. Thomas (US Virgin Islands), March 27 to April 1, 1978.

The Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) comprises not only historians living and working in the Caribbean but also scholars working in Caribbean history, and previous conferences of the ACH have been attended by historians from a.o. Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States. The 1978 conference had 57 participants, representing at least 31 institutions, the majority of which in various Caribbean territories. Eight panels were organised around selected topics in Caribbean history - many of which had quite obviously some relation to the history of European expansion. A total of 25 papers were presented on: Amerindians in Guyana (2) Caribbean emigrants to Africa, the United States and Canada (3) French colonial politics (2) War and the Caribbean (5) Public policy and private economy in the Caribbean (3) Aspects of Virgin Islands history (5) Aspects of slavery in the Caribbean (2)

Turnbull, Charles, “Aspects of Danish Educational Laws in the Virgin Islands, 1839 – 1917”

Bourne, Compton, “Public Economic Policy and Colonial Underdevelopment: British Guiana, 1900 – 1920”

Wiltshire, Winston, “The Commercial Development of Trinidad Lake Asphalt, 1888 – 1948”

Ramos Mattei, Andrés, “Inmigración por contrato desde las Islas Británicas en el Caribe a la industria azucarera puertorriqueña: 1860 - 1880, {Un aspecto de la transición hacia el trabajo libre en Puerto Rico}”

Walter, John C., “The Caribbean Immigrant Impulse in American Life, 1900 – 1930”

Buckley, Roger N., “War and Slavery in the Caribbean: The case of the British West India regiments”

Blackett, Richard J. M., “Return to the Motherland: Robert Campbell a Jamaican in early colonial Lagos”

Menezes, Mary Noel, From Protection to Integration: the Amerindians of Guyana vis-a-vis the Government, 1803 – 1973”

Potter, Dr. Lesley, “The Amerindians of Guyana and their Environment”

Hall, Neville A. T., “Establishing a Public Elementary School System for Slaves in the Danish Virgin Islands, 1732 – 1846”

Williams, Denis, “Prehistoric Rock Art in Guyana and the Antilles”

Van Soest, Japp, “On the Account of Curaçao: Two Centuries of Fiscal Legislation for Trade and Industry”

Dookhan, Isaac, “The Search for Identity: The Political Aspirations and Frustrations of Virgin Islanders under the United States Naval Administration, 1917 – 1927”

Higman, Barry W., “African and Creole Slave Family Patterns in Trinidad”

Baptiste, Fitzroy A., “New War Technologies, New War Resources and the Changing United States’ Politico-Strategic Assessment of the British and other European Colonies in the Caribbean Area, 1914 – 1939”

Samaroo, Brinsley, “The Mirror of War: Trinidad Newspaper Coverage of the First World War, 1914 – 1918”

Krigger, Marilyn F., “Attitudes and References to Immigrants in the St. Thomas Press, 1936 – 1942”

Jones-Hendrickson, Simon B., “Public Policy in the Virgin Islands of the United States, 1917 – 1946”

The Virgin Islands and Their People

Jarvis, José Antonio, The Virgin Islands and Their People, USA: Dorrance & Company Inc., 1944. (2 copies)

From the Preface:

This book was prepared to satisfy the growing demand for a reliable yet short account of the Virgin Islands and their people. Nothing essential has been left out; yet no unimportant detail has been included.

Historical Dictionary of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Farr, Kenneth R., Historical Dictionary of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1973.

From the Introduction:

This dictionary… is in no sense an encyclopedia, but is intended to be a guide and source book to provide factual data on persons, events, historically significant places, geographical and political subdivisions, and a sprinkling of pertinent definitions of terms.

The U.S. Virgins and the Eastern Caribbean

Creque, Darwin D., The U.S. Virgins and the Eastern Caribbean, Philadelphia: Whitmore Publishing Co., 1968. (signed by the author for Joyce and Dr. Thomas Mathews)

From the author’s Preface:

Although this short history is titled The U.S. Virgins and the Eastern Caribbean, it also contains a brief description of former British islands in the West Indies which have since attained their independence, present British possessions, along with French and Dutch islands the Caribbean as far north as Curacao and Aruba.

From Denmark to the Virgin Islands

Knud-Hansen, Knud, From Denmark to the Virgin Islands, United States: Dorrance & Co., 1947.

An Obstetrician, Surgeon and General Practitioner, Dr. Knud Knud-Hansen was born in Denmark. He received his early education in Copenhagen and upon completion he entered the University to pursue a medical career. Dr. Hansen in his autobiography, From Denmark to the Virgin Islands, Describes these years as "long years of happy misery". To support himself through medical school he taught Zoology in a Miss West's Higher Girls School and doubled as a news critic for a newspaper syndicate.

Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot

Lynch, Hollis R., & Edward Wilmot Blyden, Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, London, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Reviewed in African Historical Studies © 1968.

Reviewed in Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines © 1969.

Reviewed in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912), the father of pan-Africanism; was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician primarily in Liberia. Born in the West Indies, he joined the free black immigrants to the region from the United States; he also taught for five years in the British West African colony of Sierra Leone in the early 20th century. His writings on pan-Africanism were influential in both colonies, which were started during the slavery years for the resettlement of free blacks from the United States and Great Britain. His writings attracted attention in the sponsoring countries as well. He felt that Zionism was a model for what he called Ethiopianism, and that African Americans could return to Africa and redeem it. Later he supported Islam.

See also A Historical Account of St. Thomas, W.I., by John P. Knox.

Brief History of the Virgin Islands

Jarvis, José Antonio, Brief History of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands: The Art Shop, 1938.

Reviewed in The Journal of Negro History © 1939.

Jose Antonio Jarvis was born on November 22, 1901, the offspring of a minister of the African Methodist Church, Joseph W. Jarvis and Mercedes Duvergee, a Roman Catholic St. Thomian. He was brought up by Miss Mary Hughustein, whom Jarvis referred to as his godmother, in a house on Gamble Gade in Savan. Young Antonio attended the Catholic School. His interest in journalism began rather early when he worked as a printers evil to Herbert Taylor, who owned a newspaper and then to "Lightbourn's Mail Notes." He contributed to it when it became George Audain's "St. Thomas Mail Notes" and years after became its assistant editor. The noted educator started teaching in 1924, first at the St. Thomas Academy, later, the same year, at Abraham Lincoln School. After passing exams in the public education system, he received an elementary certificate. He then taught at the Charlotte Amalie High School for eight years.

The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands

de Booy, Theodoor & John T. Faris, The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands, London & Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1918.

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From the preface:

The authors of this volume have tried to put into concise form the facts concerning the story, the present conditions and the possibilities of the Virgin Islands of the United States for the tourist and the business man as well as for those who must be content, for the time being, at least, to make their journeys to the West Indies in imagination. At the same time, the attempt has been made to weave into the fascinating story something of the romance that cannot be separated from the thought of the islands in the mind of one who has had the pleasing experience of spending in these newest possessions of the United States a winter that was the culmination of a number of seasons on other islands of the dreamy Caribbean.

Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy (December 5, 1882 – February 18, 1919) was a Dutch-born American archaeologist. De Booy was born as son of a Vice Admiral in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands. At the age of 23, he migrated to the United States where he married Elizabeth Hamilton Smith in 1909. In 1916 he became an American citizen. In 1911 he went to the Bahamas with his wife. During their archaeological fieldwork in the caves and middens they made remarkable discoveries (e.g. a paddle or pottery) from the Pre-Columbian culture of the Lucayan. In the following years he worked for the Heye Museum in New York City. His fieldwork in the Caribbean and in Venezuela made him a prolific expert for the history of the Pre-Columbian Arawak culture.

The Virgin Islands: A Caribbean Lilliput

Lewis, Gordon K., The Virgin Islands: A Caribbean Lilliput, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972. (Signed by the author for Tom & Joyce Mathews)

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: The Past

1. The Danish Background.
2. 1917: The American Beginnings.
3. 1931: The New Deal Period.
4. 1941: The War Period and After.

PART TWO: The Present

5. The Economy.
6. The Social Milieu: The Native Virgin Islanders.
7. The Social Milieu: The Continentals.
8. The Social Milieu: The French and the Puerto Ricans.
9. The Social Milieu: The West Indian Aliens.
10. Family, Color, and Community.
11. Religion, Education, and Communications.
12. The Machinery of Government.
13. Parties and Politics.
14. The problem of Status.
Index.

A Golden Jubilee: Virgin Islanders on the Go Under the American Flag

Hill Sr., Valdemar A., A Golden Jubilee: Virgin Islanders on the Go Under the American Flag, New York: Carlton Press Inc., 1967.

Valdemar A. Hill, Sr., was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on May 1, 1914. His educational background includes: Charlotte Amalie High School; a summer session in General Economics at Columbia University in 1944; received an A.B. degree in Political Science from McKinley-Roosevelt College, Chicago, in 1947; and obtained an LLB degree from la Salle Extension University, Chicago, in 1952. Mr. Hill entered the local government service as an employee in the Department of Health in 1932. In 1937 he was one of the organizers of the first political party in the Virgin Islands, THE PROGRESSIVE GUIDE. This organization was founded in order to make the masses of people aware of their new responsibilities under the 1936 Organic Act, which granted universal suffrage to the citizens of the Virgin Islands.

The Virgin Islands: From Naval Base to New Deal

Evans, Luther Harris, The Virgin Islands: From Naval Base to New Deal, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards, 1945.

Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly © 1945.

Reviewed in The American Political Science Review © 1945.

From the inner-sleeve:

The author Luther H. Evans, Ph.D., who is an authority on mandates and related subjects in international law, is Chief Assistant Librarian of the Library of Congress. Before he assumed his present duties he was National Director of the Historical Records Survey. While he was connected with Princeton University, its School of Public and International Affairs financed his first summer visit in the Virgin Islands.

St. Croix under Seven Flags

Lewisohn, Florence, St. Croix under Seven Flags, Hollywood, Florida: Dukane Press, 1970.

Obituary.

From the inner-sleeve:

St. Croix under Seven Flags reflects the turbulence and sweeping changes of five centuries in the West Indies. This one small island, formerly the Danish West Indies and now one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, has flown the flags of many nations: Spain, England, Holland, France, Denmark and the United States as well as the ensign of the empire building Knights of Malta who for a few years exploited the island in one of history’s strange quirks.

Escape to the Tropics

Holdridge, Desmond, Escape to the Tropics, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1937.

Reviewed at Kirkus

Historic Site Preservation in the Caribbean: A Status Report

Towle, Judith A., Historic Site Preservation in the Caribbean: A Status Report, St. Thomas USVI: Island Resources Foundation, 1978.

See also Island Resources Foundation.

From the introduction:

This publication was originally issued as a final report for a segment of an American Revolution Bicentennial project funded jointly by the Island Resources Foundation, the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. As initiated and coordinated by the Foundation, the project effort, entitled “The Caribbean and the American Revolution”, was designed to complete a preliminary inventory of Caribbean historic sites, with the majority of the sites surveyed dating from the eighteenth century and, specifically, the era of the American Revolution.

Caribbean Journal of Education, January 1979

Caribbean Journal of Education, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1979.

Contents:

Establishing a Public Elementary School System for Slaves in the Danish Virgin Islands 1732 – 1846, by N.A.T. Hall.

Teaching as Decision Making, by John Martin.

Producing Media Software: A Slides-With-Commentary Presentation, by Michael Morrissey.

Democratization of Education: Teacher and Student Participation in Curriculum Decision-Making – A Model for Curriculum Management in Secondary Schools in the West Indies, by Zellyne D. Jennings-Wray.

Notes on Contributors.

The Caribbean Journal of Education (CJE), published twice annually by the School of Education, University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica), is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to covering all aspects of education affecting the Caribbean, from the early childhood to the tertiary level. Founded in 1974, CJE has always focused on giving voice to the concerns of the region. Education specialists and stakeholders, scholars, researchers, practitioners, policy makers are invited to submit scholarly papers on any aspect of education with potential impact on education in the Caribbean.

The Enighed Estate and Ruin of St. John, U.S.V.I.: An Historical Survey

Tyson, Jr., George F., The Enighed Estate and Ruin of St. John, USVI: An Historical Survey, Island Resources Foundation; Prepared for the Dept. of Conservation and Cultural Affairs of the Gov’t of the US Virgin Islands, November 1976.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

The Estate and Its Owners.

The Laborers.

The Enighed Ruin.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Appendix A: Enighed Estate History, 1786 – 1946.

Appendix B: Residents on Enighed, 1803 – 1870.

Appendix C: St. John Statistics, 1728 – 1940.

Until about 1837, Estate Enighed was dedicated to sugar production. At the peak of the estate’s prosperity in 1803, it consisted of 225 total acres; 110 acres were planted in sugar, and 15 acres were devoted to provision grounds and pasture land.

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The Journal of Caribbean History, Vol. 13

The Journal of Caribbean History, Vol. 13, Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann Educational Books, 1980.

Contents:

The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies 1650 - 1832, by Michael Craton.

Slaves Use of their ‘Free’ Time in the Danish Virgin Islands in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century, by Neville Hall.

Sir John Gorrie: A Radical Chief Justice of Trinidad (1885 – 1892), by Bridget Brereton.

Book Reviews.

The Journal of Caribbean History, Vol. 12

The Journal of Caribbean History, Vol. 12, Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979. (two copies)

Contents:

The Search for Identity: The Political Aspirations and Frustrations of Virgin Islanders under the United States Administration, 1917 – 27, by Isaac Dookhan.

The Attitudes of Influential Groups of Colonial Society towards the Rural Working Population in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico, 1860 – 73, by Teresita Martinez de Carrera.

Slavery Remembered: The Celebration of Emancipation in Jamaica, by B. W. Higman.

Project VIBIB: The Virgin Islands Bibliography Project – A Prospectus and Pre-Proposal

Highfield, Arnold R. & Walter I. Knausenberger, Project VIBIB: The Virgin Islands Bibliography Project – A Prospectus and Pre-Proposal, College of the Virgin Islands, September, 1984.

Contents:

I. Overview of the Project.

II. Work Completed to Date.

III. Work Remaining.

IV. Timetable for Completion.

V. Staffing and Budgetary Needs.