… grew from 4.01 lb per capita in 1698-99 to 23.02 lb in 1770-1779. 2 Sugar, a labour-intensive crop, was produced in the colonies with extensive use of slave labour. The historian of sugar Sidney Mintz has described sugar plantations as ‘a …
… établie en Angleterre sous le nom de Free-Massons , c’est-à-dire Massons libres , qui a essayé de former deux ou trois Colonies en Hollande. Le secret de cette confrérie très nombreuse et très distinguée par les personnes illustres qui en …
… reconnu officiellement par le roi Charles II dans l’Empire britannique. Comme la plupart des pays européens disposant de colonies, les tribus des premiers habitants étaient vues comme des peuples primitifs qu’il s’agissait d’instruire ou … historiques autour de la description de la captivité du prince africain Oroonoko, qui fut vendu comme esclave aux colonies anglaises. D e nombreux détails visaient ainsi à fournir un fond de véracité au récit, soulignant le caractère …
… of Tennessee Press, 1990), p.16; Lauren Clay, Stagestruck: The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013), p. 210. What little elite sociability there was in Saint Domingue was …
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… would create efficient social, intellectual and political networks with the rest of Britain, Europe, America and the colonies in general. They would indeed correspond with each other and share their publications. Edinburgh became such an …
… Assembly over the issue of extending or denying political rights for free people of colour in France’s Caribbean colonies. 6 As the political situation heated up in late 1788 and early 1789, two further clubs, both short-lived, …
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… to the editing process and to his editorial policy. His networks went far beyond the UK to reach the American colonies and the continent. Similarly, his volumes of biographical memoirs ( Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century …
… to the editing process and to his editorial policy. His networks went far beyond the UK to reach the American colonies and the continent. Similarly, his volumes of biographical memoirs ( Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century …