Caribbean Resources for Atlantic History

November 6- 7, 1997

Saturday, November 6

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Introduction

Michael Craton, University of Waterloo

“Research in the Caribbean: Main Lines and Possibilities”

Philip Morgan, College of William and Mary

“Sources for Caribbean Plantations and Slavery”

Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

“Resources for African and Indigenous History in Spanish Caribbean Archives”

Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University

“Outre-Mer: The Archives of the French Caribbean”

Wim Klooster, University of Southern Maine

“Imperial Relations in the Caribbean: Sources in the Spanish and Dutch Archives”

Sunday, November 7

David Hancock, University of Michigan

“Archival Sources for Atlantic History in the West Indies”

James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona

“‘One One Cocoa Fill Basket’: Jamaican Archival Resources for 17th- and 18th-Century Atlantic History”

Douglas Chambers, University of Southern Mississippi

“Assessing Fugitive Slave Advertisements as Primary Source Materials: Jamaica, 1791-1814”