New England and the Caribbean / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

Contents: Section I. Extractive and provisioning trades -- The Card family and the mahogany trade : from New England to the Bay of Honduras / Jennifer L. Anderson -- New England whaling in the Caribbean / Michael P. Dyer -- Section II. Plantations and business ventures -- Antillean ambitions and entanglements : a New Englander's British-Caribbean network and career during the American early republic / James W. Roberts -- The Moffatts of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the Caribbean / Barbara McLean Ward -- Cold drinks in hot weather : the Boston-Havana ice trade, 1801-1834 / Amanda Warnock -- -- Section III. Slavery and piracy -- "A [useful] Spanish Indian damsel" : native Caribbean slavery in Boston before 1770 / Peter Benes -- Beyond the triangle trade : Rhode Island and the West Indies / Eric Kimball -- Caribbean buccaneers in New England / Stephen C. O'Neill -- Section IV. Caribbean immigrants to New England -- "The chief spirit ... our venerable fellow citizen" : the life of John Redmond in antebellum Salem, Massachusetts / George Schwartz -- Section V. Architecture --Embracing the sacred in the secular : synagogue architecture, community, and God n Willemstad, Curaçao, and Newport, Rhode Island / Daniel Kurt Ackermann -- Caribbean--New England bibliography

2008

156 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references