…rustique. Dupuys, 1589. Faherty, Duncan, Edward White, and Toni Wall Jaudon, eds. “Account of a Remarkable Conspiracy Formed by a Negro in the Island of St. Domingo,” 2016. CUNY Grad…
Landscapes and Maps
…Jamaica examines the politics, cultures, and histories of the island. Although born in England, Long spent much of his life on the island overseeing his father’s large and lucrative plantation.The…
Key Text: A Narrative of a Five Years Expedition
…natural history of the island. This includes these images, created by well-known Romantic poet William Blake, that offer detailed depictions of a number of different species that occupied different habitats…
Makandal Translation: Visual
…known first-hand image of François Makandal. Moreau de Saint-Mery lost a portion of his years of writing about the island as well as Dupont’s painting of Makandal when he fled…
Key Text: Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise de l’isle Saint Domingue
…de la Loi. Et à Hambourg, chez les principaux libraires, 1797. http://archive.org/details/descriptiontopog00more. Topographical, physical, civil, political and historical description of the French part of the island of Saint-Domingue. : With…
How did natural history affect colonization?
…island of Barbadoes from 1657, which acts more as a manual for how to produce, and profit from, sugarcane plantations on the island, rather than as a record of the…
Translation and Transcription: Le Mémoire du juge Courtin
…le reste, We have long attributed the scurbic dispositions of the island to the climate of Saint-Domingue, so we believed that they were the cause or reason of all of…
Key Text: “Jaw Bone or House John Canoe” and Koo Koo or Actor Boy published in 1837/1838
…ways Carnival manifests itself on different islands. Caribbean culture is nuanced and complex in the sense that each island is different and carries its own variations of a similar culture….
Images from the Archive: Fauna
…detailed depictions of a number of different species that occupied different habitats within the island. This includes sharks and remora fish, quato and saccawinkee monkeys, and a number of birds…
Carnival: Works Cited
…Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, . . . and islands of America. (London, 1707), vol. 1, pp. l-li. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at…