Making Money from the Royal Navy in the Late Eighteenth Century
Charles Kerr on Antigua ‘breathing the True Spirit of a West India agent’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11839271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank A J L James (0000-0002-0499-9291, Twitter (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 402-419 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Mariner s Mirror (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-3359 • E-ISSN: 2049-680X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00253359.2021.1978257 |
| OpenAlex | W3210499963 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Recent studies of the legacy of people enslaved in the British Caribbean have neglected how non-plantation owners in colonies such as Antigua sometimes became enormously wealthy. This article examines how the Scottish-born Antiguan merchant Charles Kerr acquired his fortune through his activities as a prize agent, especially relating to the British occupation of St Eustatius (1781) and of Guadeloupe (1794) and as a contractor/supplier to the Royal Navy and others for a variety of goods and services. Charles Kerr, and those like him, need to be added to the subjects requiring study to strengthen our understanding of the various legacies of slavery and the nature of the British Empire
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Empire · Navy · Variety (cybernetics · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
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The Wooden World
The Royal Navy and Caribbean Colonial Society during the Eighteenth Century
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776
Drought and Disaster in a Revolutionary Age
Soldiers, Sugar, and Seapower
The Royal Navy and the Caribbean, 1689–1763
Fugitive Harbour
The Diary of Joseph Farington
An Empire Divided
The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750–1820
The British government and the Saint Domingue slave revolt,1791—1793
Abolition and Imperial Law, 1790–1820
Sir Charles Grey, First Earl Grey
The Trade of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century
Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |