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Allegations in Caribbean Settler Society 1600-1850 Paper
Allegations in Caribbean Settler Society 1600-1850 Paper
Paper instructions: Why were corruption allegations particularly frequent in Caribbean settler society (1600-1850)?
P1 – Political causes
The key role of Caribbean governing elite in constructing the political and economic structures that cause their states’ political corruption problems.
P2 – Economic causes
Role of the growing slave trade
Piracy, tax evasions and extortion.
Mark Knights
Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and Its Empire, 1600-1850
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CASE STUDY: In 1712, Henry – one of the Lascelles twins – arrived in Barbados and married Mary, the daughter of a slave trader. He, too, went into the slave trade, and between 1713 and 1717, he imported 1,100 of them.
More lucratively, in 1714, Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole made him the Collector of Customs in Barbados, putting him in charge of the sugar trade.
He was accused of extorting £2,000 from a Portuguese ship, and brought back to London to face charges of corruptionP3 –
P4 –
ESSENTIAL READINGS (Must Be Included in Bibliography)
A Key resource: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi…
A Key resource:
Mark Knights
Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and Its Empire, 1600-1850Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776 by Natalie Zacek, 2010
Sex and sexuality in early America by Merril D. Smith, 1998
Zacek, ‘Sex, Sexuality, and Social Control in the Eighteenth Century Leeward Islands’, Chapter 8 / chapter 4
A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke, Antigua, 1710 in Cultures and identities in Colonial British America, by Zacek
Zacek, ‘A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke, Antigua, 1710’ . p. 223-243.
Colonel Parke of Virginia: the greatest hector in the town : a biography, by Helen Hill Miller, 1989
Full text of “The making of the West Indies. The Gordons as colonists”
https://archive.org/stream/makingofwestindi00bull/…
Private enterprise and public service: Naval contracting in the Caribbean, 1720–50 in Journal for Maritime Research, by Douglas Hamilton, 12/2004
Robert Dinwiddie, his career in American…, by Koontz, Louis Knott, 1890-1951, 1941
Slavery, family, and gentry capitalism in the British Atlantic: the world of the Lascelles,1648-1834, by S. D. Smith, 2006, read Chapter 4
LASCELLES, Henry (1690-1753), of Harewood and Northallerton, Yorks. | History of Parliament Online
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/17…
Sarah Barber, The disputatious Caribbean: the West Indies in the seventeenth century (2014), ebook
Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges. Slavery and the Transformation of English Society 1640-1700 (Chapel Hill, 2007) – ebook
Richard S.Dunn, Sugar and slaves: the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (2000)
Larry Dale Gragg, Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660(OUP 2003)
Jack Greene, ‘Changing Identity in the British Caribbean: Barbados as a Case Study’ in Canny and Pagden eds Colonial identity in the Atlantic World (1987)
Richard Pares, ‘A London West-India Merchant House, 1740-1769′ in Pares (ed) An Historian’s Business and Other Essays (London, 1961)
Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons (2012
Richard Sheridan, ‘The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society 1689-1748’ in P J Marshall, The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century (1998), chapter 18
Nuala Zahedieh, The Capital and the Colonies. London and the Atlantic Economy, 1660-1700(Cambridge, 2009)
Nuala Zahedieh, ‘Making mercantilism work: London merchants and Atlantic trade in the late seventeenth century’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 9 (1999), 143-84.
