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On the rim of the Caribbean : colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pressly, Paul M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Georgia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
West Indies, British > Commerce > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Georgia > Commerce > West Indies, British > History > 18th century.
Georgia > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Plantations > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The three Georgias
  • Merging planting elites
  • The West Indies, cornerstone of trade
  • Savannah as a "Caribbean" town
  • Merchants in a Creole society
  • The slave trade in creating a Black Georgia
  • The making of the Lowcountry plantation
  • Georgia's rice and the Atlantic world
  • Retailing the "baubles of Britain"
  • The trade in deerskins and rum
  • Nationalizing the Lowcountry.