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194 Further Reading and Bibliography A good starting point, and my own, is Sir William Young’s An Account of the Charaibs of the Island of St. Vincent’s, first published in 1795 while the Second Carib War was still raging. Young knew the island and the principal people involved well and his narrative draws on the papers of his father of the same name, who was responsible for the sale of lands in St. Vincent following the start of British rule there in 1763. Charles Shephard’s An historical account of the Island of Saint Vincent covers the Second Carib War, in particular, in some detail. Both these contemporary or near-contemporary accounts are openly hostile to the Black Caribs (“the cruel and perfidious Charaib”—Young; “these perfidious and deceitful people”—Shephard). Wild Majesty is an invaluable compilation of European accounts of Caribs from the time of Columbus to the twentieth century, edited by Peter Hulme and Neil Whitehead, and includes a number of selections devoted to the Black Caribs of St. Vincent. Philip Boucher’s Cannibal Encounters chronicles European-Carib relations up to 1763 with emphasis on the European literary imagination. For readers of French, Gérard Lafleur’s Les Caraïbes des Petites Antilles covers Carib history across the region up to the Black Caribs’ defeat in 1797, drawing extensively on the French archives. Sojourners of the Caribbean by Nancie González is primarily an anthropological study of modern-day Garifuna customs in Central America but also contains important chapters on the deportation from St. Vincent and the early Garifuna settlement along the Central American coast. The Garifuna: A Nation Across Borders is a selection of essays, principally of social anthropology but also containing some historical contributions, edited by Joseph O. Palacio. St. Vincent in the History of the Carib Nation by the Vincentian author Edgar Adams offers another telling of the story of the island’s Caribs and reproduces a number of important original documents. Research for this book was conducted in the archives of the United Kingdom, France, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as in the British Library. The National Archives in Kew, southwest London, contain numerous official government and military documents with a bearing on the Black Caribs. Of particular interest are those Colonial Office documents in the series CO101/13–18, covering the period when St. Vincent fell under the governorship of Grenada, and CO260 for the period when St. Vincent constituted its own government. (CO260/1 starts in 1776 and CO260/22, for example, features papers from 1807.) A number of War Office files are relevant, including WO1/82–86 covering the Second Carib War and its aftermath. The Treasury and the Admiralty also preserve relevant material (T1/500, for example, contains Sir William Young’s claim for expenses as a land commissioner and ADM51/1226 is the log of HMS Experiment which carried the Caribs to Roatán). Further Reading and Bibliography 195 The Centre des Archives d’Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence contains archives relative to France’s colonial empire. Of particular interest is the sub-series F3/58 compiled by Moreau de Saint-Méry as well as the series C10 D2, both of which contain documents relative to the periods of French rule in St. Vincent. The National Archives in Kingstown, St. Vincent, lack original documents from the eighteenth -century colonial period but have photocopies of a few relevant historical papers in addition to some modern writings, including doctoral dissertations. Translations from French and Spanish are my own except where the footnotes indicate an existing translation as the source. Proper names occur in a wide variety of spellings. I have generally used what I take to be the most commonly used forms. Abercromby, James (1861), Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby KB, 1793–1801, A Memoir by his Son, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas. Adams, Edgar (2002), People on the Move, Kingstown. ———(2007), Saint Vincent in the History of the Carib Nation 1625–1797, Kingstown. Allaire, Louis (1980), “On the Historicity of Carib Migrations in the Lesser Antilles,” American Antiquity 45: 238–45. Anderson, Alexander (1983), Alexander Anderson’s Geography and History of St. Vincent, West Indies, London: Linnaean Society. ———(n.d.), Manuscripts held by Linnaean Society, London. Anderson, James [sic] (1903), “An Account of Morne Garou . . .” Philosophical Transactions, The Royal Society, Vol. 200, part I. Anderson, Mark (2009), Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Arens, W. (1979...

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