I would add that, as Jamaica's plantation economy grew in the 18th c, its reliance on indentured servants (the exported paupers) decreased. In general, in the West Indies indentured servants were more important in the 17th c, whereas the British workhouse system was an 18th c creation.

I'm not very convinced that the phenomenon they attempt to describe deserves to be called a "nexus". Slave traders no doubt helped set up and run workhouses in their own towns but I imagine that came more from a paternalistic desire to improve their own vicinity than a great transatlantic scheme.

Reported, hoping for a speedy resolution

Possibly Transkribus?

Yes, that is what I have done in the past

Working on early 1700s Jamaica, what is the best and clearest phrase to use to succinctly refer to the 11-ish continental colonies of British America? Just "continental British America"? Any other ideas?

Great article. Should help contextualise some things I talk about in my thesis, exploring enslaved doctors/healers in Kingston.

Can't even write an email with that few citations!

Have been having some problems with it since yesterday evening.

Similar thing in my thesis with books titled "History of Jamaica", or words to that effect.

Good news! There is already a book on Morice. Matthew David Mitchell, *The Prince of Slavers*. I have used it in my thesis research.

Some excellent merchants' marks at the Library Company of Philadelphia

Could always discuss archival silences, too

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

Looks tantalising. I have always admired Open Book Publishers, but a more traditional UP would be Liverpool, who publish a lot of maritime history.

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars.

Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

The sad loss of Trevor Burnard, Karl Watson, Roy Augier, and Pedro Welch in the past few months has been a real blow to Caribbean history

The new edited volume “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949”, co-edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, is out in April and now has a website/cover. Pre-order available soon!

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In Jamaican archives you get a whole range of microfilm readers, from the good to the bad to the ugly.

Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive:

www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...

Gravestone of Archibald Monteath, the author of one of the few surviving Caribbean slave testimonies. Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, Jamaica.

‘If the painting was nothing more than a realistic portrait of an 18th-century Black scholar in his study, that would be extraordinary enough. It’s the earliest such image in Western art, the first self-presentation of a Black person as an intellectual.’

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