CSEC History Guide
CSEC History Guide
CSEC History Guide
RESOURCE GUIDE
Key primary and secondary resources for the study of CXC Caribbean
History
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Beckles, H. and
Shepherd, V.
Beckles, H. and
Shepherd, V.
Claypole, W.
Gordon, S.
Greenwood, R.
Hall, D.
Caribbean,
972.9 Hal
Higman, B. (ed.)
Knight, F.W.
Lewis, G.K.
Reid, B.A.
Rogozinski, J.A.
A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the
Present. New York: Facts on File Inc., 1999.
972.9 Rog
Shepherd, V.A.
Sources of West Indian history / compiled by F. R, Augier and Shirley C. Gordon London,
Longmans, 1962. 972.9 Aug
Watts, D.
The Core
Beckles, H. and
Shepherd, V.
Beckles, H. and
Shepherd, V.
Craton, M.
Dookham, I.
Dookham, I.
Green, W.A.
Hulme, P.
Lewis, W.A.
Pares, R.
Reid, B.A.
Coe, M.D.
Hulme, P.
Rouse, I.
The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People who Greeted Columbus. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
972.902 Rou
Beckles, H.
Bercht, F. (ed.)
Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean. New York:
Monacelli Press, 1997.
972.9004979 WI Tai
Frantz, W.
Winzerling, E.O.
Aspects of the Maya Culture. New York: North River Press, 1956.
972.015 Win
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Primary Sources
Columbus, C.
Columbus, C.
The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus, together with his voyages
of his companions. London: John Murray, 1849
973.15 Col
Syncox, G.
and Sullivan, B.
Williams, E.
Dunn, R.S.
Sugar and Slaves: the Rise of Planter Class in the English West Indies
1624-1713. Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press, 1972.
972.903 Dun
Goveia, E.
Goveia, E.
Hamilton-Willie, D.
Patterson, O.
Sheridan, R.
Sugar and Slavery: an Economic History of the British West Indies 16231775. Barbados: Caribbean University Press, 1974.
972.903 She
Brathwaite, E.
Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica. London: New Beacon Books, 1970.
Pam 917.292 Ja Bra
Culture of slaves: customs - birth, death, marriage, religious practices,
music, dance, dress
Craton, M. and
G. Greenland
Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.
301.4493097292 Ja Cra
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Jamaica Surveyed: Plantations, maps and plans of the 18th and 19th
Centuries. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica Publications Ltd., c1988.
333.3 Ja Hig
Maps and images of sugar estates, coffee, pimento and cotton
plantations
Shepherd, V.
Primary Sources
Abrahams, R.
and Szwed, J.
Brummell, J.
After Africa: extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the
17th, 18thand 19th centuries Concerning Slaves, their Manners, and
Customs in the British West Indies. New Haven, London: Yale University
Press, c1983.
Contents: slave culture and cultural forms, jonkunnu, religious practices,
Demerara after fifteen years of freedom. London, T. Bosworth, 1853.
Told from the perspective of a landowner (John Brummell), this includes
information on the description of a sugar estate, the cane field, boiling
house and the different levels of leadership.
988.1 Dem
Equiano, Olaudah.
Hall, D.
Jamaica Pamphlets. Contain documents that presents arguments for and against the abolition
of slavery. Some of these documents were written by members of the
clergy and plantocracy. See below bibliographic notes for some of these
documents.
A letter to the members of the imperial parliament referring to the
evidence contained in the proceedings of the House of Assembly of
Jamaica and showing the injurious and unconstitutional tendency of the
proposed Slave Registry Bill. London: J. M. Richardson, 1816.
972.92 Ja Jam V.26A
This letter was written by a Jamaican planter and member of the House of
Assembly to prevent the implementation of the slave registration bill of
1816 passed by the British government.
Slave Law of Jamaica with proceedings and documents relative thereto.
London: James Ridgway, 1828. 972.92 Ja Jam
This document is very detailed in its clarification of the New Slave Laws
passed by the Jamaican Assembly to improve the conditions of slaves.
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Craton, M.
Fick, C.
Mathurin, L.
The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies during Slavery. Kingston:
African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica, 1975.
Pam 326.9729 Ja Mai
McKenzie, C.
Vacianna, J.
and Campbell, C.
Thompson, A.
Bryan, P.
Clarke, J. H.
Hart, R.
Blacks in Bondage: Slaves Who Abolished Slavery. Vol. I & II. Kingston:
Institute of Social and Economic Studies, UWI, 1980/85.
305.567 Ja Har
Outlines resistance by, The Maroons, Sam Sharpe and the Christmas
Rebellion, Tackys Rebellion and the Haitian Revolution (vol. 1)
Reynolds, C. Roy
Tacky and the Great Slave Rebellion of 1760. Jamaica Journal 6.2 (1972):
5-8.
J538
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Primary Sources
Folkes, Theodore.
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Hamilton-Willie, D.
Hayward, J. (ed.)
Williams, E.
McDonald, R. A. (ed.) Between slavery and freedom: Special Magistrate John Andersons
Journal of St. Vincent during the apprenticeship. Kingston: University of
the West Indies Press, 2001.
972. 9844 Ja Bet
Contains the complete text from the journal of Special Magistrate John
Anderson
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Burn, W.L.
Cousins, W.M.
Primary Sources
An act for the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonies; for
promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for the
compensating the persons hitherto entitled to the services of such
slaves. London, 1833.
326. 8 Gt. B
Copy of Emancipation Act of 1833, in its entirety as published by the
British Government in 1833.
Clarkson, Thomas
Note from the West India agents to the Secretary Sir George Murrayregarding the proposed laws for the welfare of the slaves.
MS 754
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This document was written on the behalf of Agents to the British West
Indies to Sir George Murray regarding the urgent need for the Agents to
be dispatched to the British colonies to encourage the various colonial
legislatures to enforce the Amelioration proposals of 1823. It was written
on the 23rd July 1829.
Thome, J.
Kimbal, H.
Williams, James.
MS 1887
This document contains valuable information regarding the
apprenticeship system it includes a speech by the Marquis of Sligo,
Governor of Jamaica and a letter by John Scoble, about punishment of
apprentices under the apprenticeship.
The importance of the British colonies in the West Indies; the danger of
a general and immediate emancipation of the negroes and a sketch of a
plan for a safe and gradual emancipation, on terms favourable to all
parties and without any loan. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnott,
1833.
326.8 Bro
A publication to support the views against immediate emancipation
Anderson, J.
Gordon, S.
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Green, W.A.
Laurence, K.O
Roopnarine, L.
Thomas, M.E.
Whiteman, A.
Primary Sources
Letter to the Proprietors and Mortgagees of Estates in the Island of
Jamaica, on promoting immigration into that colony. ... London, Jenkins,
[1836]
325 Ja Lin
The West -India Labour Question : being replies to inquiries instituted
by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti -Slavery Society,
embracing facts and statistics on the present condition of the
emancipated classes, and on the alleged want of labour in the West India colonies; but especially in Jamaica. London, The Society, 1858
331 Wes
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Jenkins, John
The Coolie, his rights and wrongs; notes of a journey to British Guiana,
with a review of the system and of the recent commission of enquiry.
London: Strahan and Company, 1871.
Wilmot,R.
Atteck, Hellen,
& Phillip Atteck
Author unknown
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Lobdel, R.
Richardson, B.C
Richardson, B.C.
Depression Riots and the Calling of the 1897 West Indian Royal
Commission. New West Indian Guide. 66.3&4 (1992): 169-91. N64
Ward, J.R.
The British West Indies sugar industry in the late 19th century. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1957. 338.1731 Bea
Primary Sources
Colonial Office
Oliver, Lord.
This pamphlet was a Speech being delivered before the Royal Empire
Society by the Rt. Hon. Lord Oliver, on April 29, 1930. In his speech he
discusses the sugar crisis that West Indian colonies are facing. He also
makes mention of Cuba and speaks about the low prices of sugar. Also
discussed are measures on how to preserve the West Indies and resolve
the crisis.
Dookham, I.
Hamilton-Willie, D.
Primary Sources
Smith, E.T., Earl.
Root, Elihu.
The Military and Colonial Policy of the United States Addresses and
Reports. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924. 972.91061 Roo
There are various extracts from reports written from 1899 1902 that
focuses on the Platt Amendment, Conditions in Cuba
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Stermer, Dugald.
The Art of Revolution 96 Posters from Cuba. Paul Mall: London 1970.
O 709. 7291 Art
A collection of posters that were drawn and or painted during the time of
the Castro led Revolution.
Hamilton-Willie, D.
Hart, R.
Phillips, F.
Wallace, E.
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Primary Sources
Federation, referendum and planning for independence. Daily Gleaner,
13 Oct. 1961.
James, C.L.R.
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An article that gives details about the social unrest that was taking place
at the time which was the Bus Strike. It talks about the situation being
unchanged and that there were more serious reports of busses being
stoned on routes being taken.
Political structure of the West Indies Federation. Jamaica Times, 6 May,
1961.
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Speech made by the honourable the chief minister during the debate on
the Chaguaramas Joint Commission Report. Trinidad: Government printing
Office, 1958.
Cross, M.
The East Indians of Guyana and Trinidad. London: Minority Rights Group,
1980. Pam 972.9830049144 WI Cro
French, J.
Colonial Policy towards Women after the 1938 Uprising: the Case of
Jamaica. [Kingston?]: J.French, 1986. Pam 331.4133 Ja Fre
Gates, B.(ed.)
Gravette, A.
Hilton, P.
Knowles, W.H.
Lewis, R. and
P. Bryan
Senior, O.
Garvey: His Work and Impact. Kingston: Institute of Social and Economic
Research, UWI, 1988. 305.89607292 Ja Gar
Working Miracles: Womens Lives in the English Speaking Caribbean.
Cave Hill, Barbados: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University
of the West Indies, 1991. 305.4209729 Ja Sen
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Simpson E., George Religious Cults of the Caribbean: Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti. Puerto
Rico: Institute of Caribbean Studies, 1970.
Primary Sources
Electors of St. Andrew Vote for Marcus Garvey. NLJ Manuscript
collection.
A flyer which is encouraging members of the Jamaican public to vote for
Marcus Garvey to represent them in the Legislative Council. Ms 1837
No.5
Garvey, Marcus
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