The Narrative of Ashton Warner (1831): A Scholarly Introduction By: Nicole Aljoe <</p style=”width: 850px;”>> Published in March 1831 in London with the help of the Anti-Slavery Society, Negro Slavery Described by a Negro details the experiences of Ashton Warner of St. Vincent. The narrative was transcribed by Susannah Strickland, the same woman who transcribed […]

Narrative of Sibell from Narratives of Ashy and Sibell (1799): A Scholarly Introduction By: Josephine Sloman The narratives of Ashy and Sibell are first-person oral accounts given by Ashy and Sibell, two African-born enslaved women in Barbados. They were originally transcribed in 1799 for a manuscript produced by John Ford. Little is known about John […]

Narrative of Ashy from Narratives of Ashy and Sibell (1799): A Scholarly Introduction By: Josephine Sloman The narratives of Ashy and Sibell are first-person oral accounts given by Ashy and Sibell, two African-born enslaved women in Barbados. They were originally transcribed in 1799 for a manuscript produced by John Ford. Little is known about John […]

The History of Mary Prince (1831): A Scholarly Introduction By: William Bond Mary Prince was born into slavery in 1788 in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. In The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave Related by Herself, Prince recounts her life as a slave in Bermuda and later in Antigua; her narrative ends with an […]

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (1793): A Scholarly Introduction By: Max Dodge-Harkins The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was first published by Olaudah Equiano by subscription in 1789 in London. Equiano self-published his narrative with The Stationer’s Company instead of selling his copyright to a bookseller-publisher. Although this was a risky […]

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (1794): A Scholarly Introduction By: Max Dodge-Harkins The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was first published by Olaudah Equiano by subscription in 1789 in London. Equiano self-published his narrative with The Stationer’s Company instead of selling his copyright to a bookseller-publisher. Although this was a risky […]

A Treatise on Sugar (1800): A Scholarly Introduction By: Elizabeth Polcha and Kate Simpkins A Treatise on Sugar is one of several treatises in which the English physician Benjamin Moseley traces Eurocentric geographical histories of plant cultivation in the Caribbean. This treatise, like Moseley’s others, culminates in observations about colonial agricultural production and the plantation’s […]

The History of Jamaica or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, Volume III (1774): A Scholarly Introduction By: Dania Dwyer First published by T. Lowndes in London in 1774, Edward Long’s History of Jamaica or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island served for nearly a […]

The History of Jamaica or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, Volume II (1774): A Scholarly Introduction By: Dania Dwyer First published by T. Lowndes in London in 1774, Edward Long’s History of Jamaica or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island served for nearly a […]

The History of Jamaica or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, Volume I (1774): A Scholarly Introduction By: Dania Dwyer First published by T. Lowndes in London in 1774, Edward Long’s History of Jamaica or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island served for nearly a […]