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On the Rim of the Caribbean - Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World (Paperback)
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On the Rim of the Caribbean - Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World (Paperback)
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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 "On the Rim of the Caribbean," Paul M. Pressly interprets
Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent 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, Pressly 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. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a
frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own
distinctive character.
Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement,
Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era,
the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic
and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as
had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution
initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of
the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the
Revolution.
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