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• The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763-1833: A Study in Social and Economic History (New York and London: The Century Co., c1928), by Lowell J. Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soziale klassen und sozialpolitik in Britisch-Westindien ... (Druck von H. Meyer, 1907), by Ernst Wagemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British West Indies and the sugar industry (J. W. Root, 1899), by J. W. Root (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Five years in Trinidad and St. Vincent: a view of the social condition of the white, coloured, and Negro population of the West Indies (Whittaker, 1834), by Mrs. Carmichael (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies: their social and religious condition. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1862), by Edward Bean Underhill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on te necessity of introducing a sufficient number of respectable clergymen into our colonies in the West Indies; and the expediency of establishing for that purpose, by subscription, a college in this country, in which persons may be fitly educated. (Philanthropic society, 1808), by George Holford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old plantation system in the British West Indies (Washington : Educational Research Bureau, [1953], 1953), by Lowell J. Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The West Indies in 1837; being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Monsterrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, and Jamaica; undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the actual condition of the Negro population of those islands. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1838), by Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)

• An essay on the treatment and conversion of African slaves in the British sugar colonies (London : Printed and sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, M.DCC.LXXXIV [1784], 1784), by James Ramsay, James Phillips, and Joseph McDonough Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Review of the Quarterly review; or, An exposure of the erroneous opinions promulgated in that work on the subject of colonial slavery: being the substance of a series of letters which appeared in the "New Times" of September and October 1824. With notes and an appendix. (Printed for J. Hatchard, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from Legion to His Grace the Duke of Richmond, &c., &c., &c., chairman of the Slavery Committee of the House of Lords : containing an exposure of the character of the evidence on the colonial side, produced before the Committee. (S. Bagster, 1832), by Legion and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Committee on Colonial Slavery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro slavery ; or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society, as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica. (Printed by R. Taylor, 1823), by Zachary Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slavery of the British West India colonies delineated, as it exists both in law and practice, and compared with the slavery of other countries, ancient and modern. (J. Butterworth and Son, 1824), by James Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A farewel [sic] address to the Rev. Mr. James Ramsay from James Tobin, Esq to which is added, a letter from the Society for Propagating the Gospel to Mr. Anthony Benezet of Philadelphia, and also a translation of the French King's declaration relating to the situation of Negroes, &c. in his European dominions. (Printed for G. and T. Wilkie, 1788), by James Tobin, Anthony Benezet, James Ramsay, France, and Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Regional Study (1989), ed. by Sandra W. Meditz and Dennis Michael Hanratty
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• A united West Indies (The West Strand publsihing co., ltd., 1912), by Charles Gideon Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• America's economic supremacy (Harper, 1947), by Brooks Adams and Marquis W. Childs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Certain inducements to well minded people who are here straitned in their estates or otherwise; or, such as are willing, out of noble and publike principles, to transport themselves or some servants, or agents for them into the West Indies, for the propagating of the gospel and increase of trade ... (Reprinted for J. Sabin [by Munsell], 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the West Indies ... (Whittaker, 1836), by Robert Montgomery Martin and John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British West Indies. (G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1818), by Bryan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies ... (L. White, 1793), by Bryan Edwards and Arthur Broughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies. (Printed and sold by James Humphreys, at the Corner of Second and Walnut-streets, 1806), by Bryan Edwards and Daniel McKinnon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies and the empire; study and travel in the winter of 1900-1901 (T. F. Unwin, 1901), by Henry de Rosenbach Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report ... (H. M. Stationery off., 1945), by Great Britain. West India Royal Commission (1938-1939) and Walter Edward Guinness Moyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems of the Antilles; a collection of speeches and writings on West Indian questions (J. Smith & son, ltd ; [etc., etc.], 1912), by Norman Lamont (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handbook of the British West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras... (The West India committee, 1926), by Algernon Edward Aspinall and West India Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation; or Practical advice to British slave-holders: with suggestions for the general improvement of West India affairs. (Sold by W. Phillips, 1824), by T. S. Winn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies (S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, limited, 1889), by C. Washington Eves and Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• British West Indies; their history, resources and progress. (Little, 1912), by Algernon Edward Aspinall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authentic history of the English West Indies (Printed for the author, Dean and Munday [printers], 1810) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers relative to the West Indies : ordered, by the House of commons, to be printed 15 March 1839. (s.n., 1839), by Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies (Printed and sold by James Humphreys, at the Corner of Second and Walnut-streets, 1806), by Bryan Edwards and Daniel M'Kinnen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies. (printed for John Stockdale, 1807), by Bryan Edwards and Arthur Broughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the members of both houses of Parliament on the West India question. (J. Ridgway, 1830), by Alexander McDonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies (S. Low, Marston, & Co., 1897), by C. Washington Eves and Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British West Indies. With a continuation to the present time. (AMS Press, 1966), by Bryan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• America's economy supremacy. (Macmillan, 1900), by Brooks Adams and Marquis W. Childs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies . (Printed for J. Stockdale, 1794), by Bryan Edwards and Arthur Broughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British West Indies : their history, resources and progress (Little, Brown, 1914), by Algernon E. Aspinall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the economic resources of the West Indies (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off., by Darling & Sons, ltd., 1898), by Daniel Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies in 1837 (Hamilton, Adams and co., 1838), by Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British West Indies : their history, resources and progress (I. Pitman, 1913), by Algernon Edward Aspinall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The West India colonies; the calumnies and misrepresentations circulated against them by the Edinburgh review, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Cropper, &c. &c. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by James MacQueen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British West Indies; their history, resources and progress (I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1912), by Algernon Edward Aspinall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Extracts from Parliamentary papers relative to the West Indies, 1839 (London : Printed by William Clowes and Sons for Her Majesty's Stationery Offic, 1840., 1840), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• A wayfarer in the West Indies (Houghton Mifflin, 1927), by Algernon E. Aspinall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies (London : S. Low, Marston & Company, ltd., 1893), by C. Washington Eves and Royal Commonwealth Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Certaine inducements to well minded people, who are heere straitned in their estates or otherwise or such as are willing out of noble and pub[l]ique principles, to tran[s]port themselves, or servants, or agents for them into the West-Indies, for the propagating the Gospell, and increase of trade. ([London : s.n., 1643?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, 1763-1834, Including the Abolition and Emancipation Movements (Washington: GPO, 1932), by Lowell J. Ragatz, contrib. by Mary Parker Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Check-List of House of Commons Sessional Papers Relating to the British West Indies and to the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery, 1763-1834 (London: Bryan Edwards Press, ca. 1923), by Lowell J. Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A check-list of House of commons sessional papers relating to the British West Indies and to the West Indian slave trade and slavery, 1763-1834 (The Bryan Edwards press, 1928), by Lowell J. Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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