West Indies Accounts. Essays on the history of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic economy in honour of Richard Sheridan

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Comprises 17 collected essays on wide ranging aspects of the history of the 'British Caribbean' to c1850 largely focused on slavery and the slave economy. Essays include: Andrew O'Shaughnessy, 'The West India interest and the crisis of American independence'; Selwyn H H Carrington, 'United States and the British West Indian trade, 1783-1807'; Mary Turner, 'Planter profits and slave rewards - amelioration reconsidered'; Michael Craton, 'Ambivalences of independency - the transition out of slavery in the Bahamas, c1800-1850'