This page includes selected resources related to the Caribbean. For additional primary source resources, please see this guide's Latin American Studies and Africana Studies pages.
Digitized ephemera includes "pamphlets, brochures, flyers, posters, placards and other printed items created since around the last quarter of the 20th century by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, public policy think tanks, and other types of organizations across Latin America"
An open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Most materials were authored and published by Europeans, but the ECDA "aims to use digital tools to 'remix' the archive and foreground the centrality and creativity of enslaved and free African, Afro-creole, and Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean world."
Primary source documents covering migrations, communities, and ideologies of the African Diaspora through the voices of people of African descent, with a focus on communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France.
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
Fulll text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
"Papers of the secretaries of state relating to colonial affairs from the 16th to the 18th century." This series relates to Colonial America and the West Indies, 1574-1739. Made available through British History Online.
Records the activity of the British Board of Trade and Plantations, 1704-82. The Board was successor to the Commission on Foreign Plantations and had responsibility for many aspects of colonial policy. Made available through British History Online.