Mid 19th- to Early 20th-century (Temporal Keyword)
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"No lovlier sight": Tracing the Post-Emancipation Lime Industry on Montserrat and Dominica (2017)
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In the second half of the 19th-century, Montserrat citrus limes were world famous, appearing regularly in British advertisements and utilized in the global perfume and beverage markets. But the ways in which this industry impacted the lives of Montserrat’s formerly enslaved laborers has yet to be clearly understood. Preliminary research for a landscape survey of Montserrat, utilizing a comparative approach with Dominica, is presented. As in the case of Montserrat, lime agriculture on Dominica...