| The Seven Years' War and Slavery in the Caribbean: Serving the King Contributor(s): Gaspar, David Barry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138206962 ISBN-13: 9781138206960 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2026 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of January 5, 2026 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | North American - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | World - General |
| Series: Empires in Perspective |
| Physical Information: 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the Seven Years' War (1756-63) the Caribbean region became the setting for major naval and military operations in which Britain engaged its imperial rivals, France and Spain. To assist military forces that were sent out to the Caribbean in operations against French and Spanish targets, Britain endorsed the recruitment of slaves from its sugar colonies of Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands. This book focuses primarily on the context of British recruitment of slaves in its Caribbean colonies and illustrates the significant contribution that these colonies made, beyond supplying slave labor, to the conquests of Guadeloupe and Martinique and of Havana in Cuba in an important theatre of the conflict - a war that helped turned secure Britain's imperial hegemony for the best part of two further centuries. |