Slave‐breeding in Barbuda: The Past of a Negro Myth

Renegotiating Barbuda's commons: recent changes in Barbudan open-range cattle herding

“…As Barbudans gained more control over the island in the twentieth century, they began to remove the wall and expand the village, first southward and then eastward ( Figure 6). Several major factors encouraged households to move out of the core village, including widespread damage to houses during hurricanes Donna in 1960 and Luis in 1995, and population growth-from 492 in 1832 to 1,325 in 2001 (Lowenthal and Clarke 1977;Tweedy 1981, 208;Lawrence 1996;SDMFE 2004). Other factors attracted people to the new suburbs: piped water reduced reliance on the village well; more funds-whether derived from remittances, migratory employment, the pensions of returned retirees, or wage labor at the hotels or sand quarry-became available to purchase construction materials, loans being uncommon because of the lack of title to serve as collateral; and the increased number of cars, from 15 in 1977 to 220 in 2008, reduced incentives to keep the village compact (Berleant-Schiller 1991).…”

Reshuffling the pack : the transition from slavery to other forms of labor in the British Caribbean, ca. 1790-1890

“…was the reality behind the myth of intentional slave breeding. the stuff of sensational novelists such as Kyle Onstott, afforded near respectability by Richard Sutch (1975), but deflated in one alleged Caribbean case by David Lowenthal & Colin Clarke (1977). 7.…”

Barbudan Creole English

“…There is no linguisticbased published research describing the features of BCE. 2 Historical treatments of the island are also few and far between (see Hall 1971 andLowenthal andClarke 1977 for two notable exceptions). This article begins with a historical examination of Barbuda with specific reference to geographical and demographic information.…”

“…Even today it is only about 1 500 persons. Lowenthal and Clarke (1977) accessed the entire Codrington correspondence (instead of the subset that is found in Lowe 1951), and, based on those records, they have arrived at the population figures shown in Table 1 from the early 18th century until just before emancipation in the British West Indies. Lowe (1951: 26) reveals a letter to the Codringtons that states the slave population in 1781 was 779.…”