Title On the rim of the Caribbean : colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic world / Paul M. Pressly

Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents The three Georgias -- Merging planting elites -- The West Indies, cornerstone of trade -- Savannah as a "Caribbean" town -- Merchants in a Creole society -- The slave trade in creating a Black Georgia -- The making of the Lowcountry plantation -- Georgia's rice and the Atlantic world -- Retailing the "baubles of Britain" -- The trade in deerskins and rum -- Nationalizing the Lowcountry Summary How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In this book, the author interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, the author examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Plantations -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General. Commerce Economic history Plantations SUBJECT Georgia -- Economic conditions -- 18th century Georgia -- Commerce -- West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century West Indies, British -- Commerce -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054218 Subject Georgia West Indies -- British West Indies Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012033964 ISBN 9780820345802 0820345806 1299132200 9781299132207

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