Mercantile communities in the Ceded Islands: the Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company

ENDNOTES

(1) While much has been written about planters and the societies they created in Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands, relatively little has been written about their counterparts in the Ceded Islands. Representative of this historical trend are Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1972); Carl Bridenbaugh and Roberta Bridenbaugh, No Peace Beyond the Line: The English in the Caribbean, 1624-1690 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972); Richard Sheridan, Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974); Lowell Ragatz, The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833 (New York: Octagon Books, 1928); Frank Pitman, The Development of the West Indies, 1700-1763: A Study in Social and Economic History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1917).

(2) The construction of a European planter class in the older settlements in the British West Indies has been well documented. See Richard Pares, A West India Fortune (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1968); J.H. Bennett, "Cary Helyar, Merchant and Planter of Seventeenth-Century Jamaica," William & Mary Quarterly 3rd ser., 21 (January 1964):53-76; J.H. Bennett, "William Dampier, Buccaneer and Planter," History Today 14:7 (July 1964):469-77; J.H. Bennett, "William Whales, Planter of Seventeenth-Century Jamaica," Agricultural History 90:1 (January 1966):113-23; Dunn, Sugar and Slaves. More recent published accounts include Douglas Hall, ed., In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86 (Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Publishers, 1999); Mathew Lewis, Journal of a West-India Planter (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

(3) Mark Quintanilla, "The World of Alexander Campbell: An Eighteenth-Century Grenadian Planter," Albion 35:2 (Summer 2003): 229-55; Edward L. Cox, Free Coloreds in the Slave Societies of St. Kitts and Grenada, 1763-1833 (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1984), 33-47.

(4) The business papers of the Bartlet & Campbell Company, which have been deposited at the archives of the Royal Bank of Scotland, provide numerous details regarding the commercial activities of the partnership in the Ceded Islands. See Royal Bank of Scotland, "Papers re Trustees of the Estate of Alexander Barlet & Co.," WD/495.

(5) Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986), 3-26; T. H. Breen, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985), 36; T.M. Devine, The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants in Glasgow and Their Trading Activities, c. 1740-1790 (Edinburgh: Donald, 1975); Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), 5-12.