Antigua History

WRITINGS ON ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

The Peculiar Class:
The Formation, Collapse, and Re-formation of the Middle Class
in Antigua, West Indies, 1843-1940

Ph.D. dissertation, 1994, Columbia University

[I am putting this up in pieces, as pdf files. Note that the genealogies are not yet included in Part 2.]

Front matter, Acknowledgments, and Introduction

Part 1: Sugar and Empire

Prologue: 1895
Chap. 1: White Men, Brown Sugar
Chap. 2: The "Politicking" of Sugar
Chap. 3: The Wheels of Empire

Part 2: The Class Called Coloured, 1834-1900

Prologue: The Free Colored in Theory
Chap. 4: Neither Black nor White, Neither Slave nor Free:
The Free Colored in Antigua
Chap. 5: From Free Colored to Middle Class: Moving Out
and Moving Up

The U.S. Bases in Antigua
and the New Winthorpes Story

This is the story of the time at the beginning of World War II when the U.S. established two bases in Antigua, moving a village to do so, and the social upheaval that resulted. It is published as a web page, with pictures.

The 1918 Riots: "Them Planters Got Real Shook Up"

This is the story of the 1918 riots, when the people from town and country stood up to the planters. It is published as a pdf file.

THE HISTORY OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA: A DIGITAL ARCHIVE