On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World

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adventurer immigrants, 23–24 Africa: indigo cultivation in, 167–68; movement of vessels from (1772), 75t; similarities of rice cultivation in lowcountry and, 124–25, 145–47; slaves captured from coast and interior of, 124, 146–47. See also “New Negroes” slaves American Revolution: Continental Congress (1774), 214, 217, 221; leadership of the Savannah merchants decline following the, 221–27; rice shipments going to the British burned by American warships, 221; Savannah merchants control of the local Patriot movement during, 214–15; Savannah merchants’ refusal to boycott British trade during, 214, 217–18, 221, 263n54 Anderson, George, 80, 162–63 Ann (brig), 29, 34, 41, 84 Antelope (brigantine), 80 Antelope (slave ship), 126 Antonia de Padua (brig), 172–73 Appleby, 116 artisans: slaves working as skilled, 91; social distance between Savannah merchants and, 85–86; working on Christ Church, 93 auctioneers, 178–79 Augusta (Georgia): commercial advantages exemplified by, 19; development as warehousing center, 17–19; distinct aspirations (1749) of, 12; geography of, 12–13 Bacon, Joseph, 188 Baillie, George, 87, 101, 129, 157 Baillie, Robert, 42, 43, 139, 167, 188–89 Baillou, Peter, 38 Bank of England, 24 Barbadian Slave Code (1661), 150, 151 Barbados slave trade, 112 Barber, Miles, 121, 122 Bard and Thompson, 176 Barnard, Edward, 201 Bartram, John, 81 Bartram, William, 56, 136, 204 Beaufort (South Carolina), 60–61 Bellinger, Elizabeth, 106 Berlin, Ira, 28 Bermuda, movement of vessels from (1772), 75t Bethesda Orphanage (Georgia), 14, 25, 26t, 41, 97, 186 Beverly plantation, 37, 97 Bevill, Mary, 56 black population. See free blacks; slaves Bloody Marsh, Battle of (1741), 25 Board of the President and Assistants: control of public land by, 34–36; entrepreneurial petitioners favored by, 40–41; Georgia’s government managed by (1750 to 1754), 45–46; Habersham’s appointment to, 33–34; number of awarded land grants to Carolinians by, 39; reasoning behind the land grants given by, 37–39 Bolster, Jeffrey, 77, 78 Bolton, Mary, 97, 179 Index The letter t following a page number denotes a table. 338 index Bolton, Robert, 86, 98, 132, 178–79 Bolzius, John Martin: concerns over shipping goods by, 15; Ebenezer described as simple town by, 173; Ebenezer nurturer as German cultural center by, 94; estimates on starting a rice plantation by, 138; opposition to slavery by, 29, 30; reporting to his superiors on Georgia trade, 21; support for disbanding of the regiment by, 25 Bosomworth, Mary Musgrove Matthews, 178; calamitous Bosomworth affair (1749) humiliation of, 46, 195, 239n20; claim to British presents made by, 20; Georgia colony role played by, 17; widespread support for claim to three islands by, 36; working relationship with South Carolina governor by, 195 Bosomworth,Thomas, 178, 195, 237n74 Bourquin, Henrietta, 176 Bourquin, Henry Lewis, 176 Bourquin family, 41, 43 Box, Philip, 95 Brailsford, Samuel, 121, 211 Braund, Kathryn, 194 Breen,T. H., 179, 214 Brewton, Miles, 115, 142 Bridgetown (Barbados), 87 British Atlantic economy: Brown, Rae and Company monopoly over Indian trade, 18–19; comparing economics of servants versus slaves, 27; comparing trade development in Carolinas and Georgia, 193–94; crippled state (late eighteenth century) of, 19; deerskin trade, 170t, 171, 178, 191–92, 193–212, 290n41; dynamics of the marketplace (mid-1760s), 87–90; examining the Carolina lowcountry role in the, 1–10; Georgia pork trade to West Indies, 62; Georgia’s continued loyalty to imperial model of, 110–11; hostility between Customs House and merchants of, 63–64; indigo crop, 38, 82, 166–68, 170t; long-term challenges of, 11–12; lumber trade, 22, 50–61, 170t; mariners and merchants supplying colony, 21; natural development of trade between Caribbean and, 22; obstacles to expanding the lumber trade in, 50–51; older models of imperial development followed (mid1760s ) by, 110–11; rum trade, 22, 64–65, 204–8, 234n47, 248n56; Savannah’s entrance into international rice market, 153–71; self-hiring practice of slaves working for wages in, 88–90, 258n123; smuggling element of, 63; South Carolina’s rice exports to West Indies, 52; West Indies’ transatlantic (early 1770s), 50. See also Georgia lowcountry; plantation economy; rice trade British merchants: arrival and establishment of the, 100–106; buying Carolina indigo crop at higher price than Georgia’s by, 167; increasing their Georgia deerskin trade, 209–10; markups on goods by, 201, 289n30; Savannah merchants receiving the bulk of goods from, 284n42; skepticism over Georgia’s rice trade by, 153–54, 155–56; slaving vessels sent to Savannah (1766–75), 121–24; supplying Georgia and Carolina retail...