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”