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

Main Author: Pressly, Paul M.
Corporate Authors: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2013.
Subjects:
Plantations > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Georgia > Economic conditions > 18th century.
Georgia > Commerce > West Indies, British > History > 18th century.
West Indies, British > Commerce > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Georgia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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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.

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