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Title: Mercantile Communities in the Ceded Islands: The Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company.
Author : International Social Science Review
Release Date : January 22, 2004
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 220 KB

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At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), adventurous entrepreneurs ventured out to Britain's newly acquired West Indian possessions of Grenada, Tobago, St. Vincent, and Dominica. The Ceded Islands, as contemporaries called them, represented the British Empire's first major Caribbean acquisition in a century. Ambitious settlers journeyed to this tropical frontier intent to transform these islands into hospitable localities for sugar estates. Successful colonists devoted the next half-century to such pursuits. (1) Like their seventeenth-century predecessors, migrants such as Alexander Bartlet traveled to the region seeking their West India fortunes. (2) Successful settlers were an ambitious lot who carved their riches from the rugged frontier by exacting labor from African slaves. (3) Like other Europeans, Bartlet saw the region as promising and linked his fortune with a business partner, George Campbell. The two men formed the Alexander Battler & George Campbell Company and set up offices in London, Grenada, the Grenadines, and Tobago. (4) The Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company is a singular example of a common phenomenon that occurred during the late eighteenth century throughout the Atlantic World. While the rise and fall of such partnerships has received uneven treatment, they were of critical importance to the profitability of the British Empire. The trade networks that such companies founded encouraged various agricultural and trade initiatives throughout the Atlantic World. The development of regional trade in North America owed much more to private initiatives than governmental support. For example, mercantile capital in the Chesapeake transformed that region by linking resident planters with foreign markets. Such steps not only secured dependable supplies for merchants, but also gave planters dependable sources of investment capital. (5) Wherever trading partnerships were established they adapted themselves to local conditions with an eye toward generating profits for reinvestment.