Running the West Indies, 1678-1950
Running the West Indies:British Records from West Indian Countries under Colonial Rule, 1678-1950
Trial Series
What's Inside
7
Collections
57
Volumes
939
Documents
301,924
Pages
Introduction
See narrative accounts from missionaries combine with colonial statistics to create a picture of these former colonies' development. Learn how owners of an Antiguan sugar plantation adapted to emancipation, and witness the nature of missionaries' roles in the slave trade. Together, these collections reveal how governments, slave owners and missionaries shaped the development of these countries over three centuries.
Dates Covered
1678-1950Contributors
- Bodleian Library
- British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
- National Library of Scotland
- Public Record Office (London) (c/o The National Archives)
- Somerset Record Office
- Surrey History Centre
