HIST 211: Reimaging the Caribbean: Empire, Commodities, and Labor 1492-1830 (FALL 2024)

• slavery in the Atlantic World
  • (slave* OR enslaved) AND (caribbean OR atlantic)
    • too many books. narrow
      • ex (slave* OR enslaved) AND (caribbean)
• rebellions 
  • (slave* OR enslaved) AND (rebel* OR revolt* OR uprising*) AND caribbean
• abolition and emancipation
  • (abolition* OR emancipat*) AND (caribbean OR atlantic)
    • too broad. narrow to just Caribbean
    • subject search
•  indigenous slavery
  • ("indigenous slavery") AND (caribbean OR atlantic)
    • no results. "indigenous slavery" not a term they'd use.
    • try ("indian slaves" OR "enslaved indians" OR "native slaves")
  • (caribbean OR atlantic) AND (slave* OR enslave*) AND ("indians of north america" OR "indigenous")
    • too broad, narrow to (atlantic) AND (slave* OR enslave*) AND ("indians of north america" OR "indigenous")
• early Spanish Caribbean,
  • (Spain OR spanish) AND caribbean
    • poor results. try (Spain OR spanish) AND "West indies"
    • Limit publications to before 1700
• environmental history
  • caribbean AND "environmental history"
    • look for books describing the land, maybe West Indies -- Description and travel
• land use,
  • caribbean AND ("land use" OR "land usage")
    • results to contemporary
      • ("West Indies" OR carribean) AND (land OR farm* OR plantation*)
• piracy
  • caribbean AND (pirate* OR piracy)
    • Lot of results. Narrow to subject search ("West indies" OR caribbean) AND (pirate* OR piracy)

PAY ATTENTION to the keywords that work here. We'll use them in the databases too!