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Black soldiers and the British Empire in the mid-eighteenth-century Caribbean

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ID9330280
AutoresMaria Alessandra Bollettino (Framingham State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen38
Número3
Páginas510-533
Fecha de publicación2016-11-10
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSlavery and Abolition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523
EditorialFrank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/0144039x.2016.1251057
OpenAlexW2555398773
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

This essay examines the British military’s deployment of black soldiers in the West Indies during the War of Jenkins’ Ear and the Seven Years’ War. It analyzes two subjects that remain neglected despite the recent upsurge of interest in mid-eighteenth-century global imperial war: the vicissitudes of these conflicts in the Caribbean and their meaning for the lives of enslaved and free blacks. It contends that black soldiers’ martial exploits convinced British officials that they were essential weapons with which to secure and expand the Empire in the Atlantic: a conviction that led British officials to clash with southern mainland North American slaveholders during the War for American Independence

Ancient history · Archaeology · British Empire · Conviction · Economic history · Empire · Ethnology · Imperial unit system · Independence (probability theory · Mainland · Military history · Military service · Mutiny · Political science · Spanish Civil War · War of independence · West indies · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law

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