Description
Summary:
Electronic reproduction of selected material from the National Archives (U.K.). Colonial Office, Foreign Office and other government files consisting largely of papers, correspondence and despatches of administrators of 19th century British colonies in the Caribbean. Also included are papers of government departments and individuals on matters relating to these colonies; Naval Office returns for Leeward Islands, 1649-1682; papers of the Commissioners of Enquiry into the state of the "captured Negroes" in the West Indies; papers relating to plantations in Tortola; papers relating to the maintenance of liberated Africans in Antigua; a journal of twenty years in the West Indies, from 1768; Book of Acts and laws of Barbados, including slave laws (1682); papers pertaining to the Haitian Revolution and the Jamaica Christmas uprising.
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Electronic resource.