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The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815 Kit Candlin CambridgeImperialandPost-ColonialStudiesSeries GeneralEditors:MeganVaughan,Kings’College,CambridgeandRichardDrayton,CorpusChristiCollege, Cambridge Thisinformativeseriescoversthebroadspanofmodernimperialhistorywhilealsoexploringtherecent developmentsinformercolonialstateswhereresiduesofempirecanstillbefound.Thebooksprovidein- depthexaminationsofempiresascompetingandcomplementarypowerstructuresencouragingthereader toreconsidertheirunderstandingofinternationalandworldhistoryduringrecentcenturies. Titlesinclude: SunilS.Amrith DECOLONIZINGINTERNATIONALHEALTH IndiaandSoutheastAsia,1930–65 TonyBallantyne ORIENTALISMANDRACE AryanismintheBritishEmpire PeterF.BangandC.A.Bayly(editors) TRIBUTARYEMPIRESINGLOBALHISTORY JamesBeattie EMPIREANDENVIRONMENTALANXIETY,1800–1920 Health,AestheticsandConservationinSouthAsiaandAustralasia RobertJ.Blyth THEEMPIREOFTHERAJ EasternAfricaandtheMiddleEast,1858–1947 RoyBridges(editor) IMPERIALISM,DECOLONIZATIONANDAFRICA StudiesPresentedtoJohnHargreaves L.J.Butler COPPEREMPIRE MiningandtheColonialStateinNorthernRhodesia,c.1930–64 KitCandlin THELASTCARIBBEANFRONTIER,1795–1815 HilaryM.Carey(editor) EMPIRESOFRELIGION NandiniChatterjee THEMAKINGOFINDIANSECULARISM Empire,LawandChristianity,1830–1960 EsmeCleall MISSIONARYDISCOURSE NegotiatingDifferenceintheBritishEmpire,c.1840–95 T.J.Cribb(editor) IMAGINEDCOMMONWEALTH CambridgeEssaysonCommonwealthandInternationalLiteratureinEnglish MichaelS.Dodson ORIENTALISM,EMPIREANDNATIONALCULTURE India,1770–1880 JostDülfferandMarcFrey(editors) ELITESANDDECOLONIZATIONINTHETWENTIETHCENTURY UlrikeHillemann ASIANEMPIREANDBRITISHKNOWLEDGE ChinaandtheNetworksofBritishImperialExpansion B.D.Hopkins THEMAKINGOFMODERNAFGHANISTAN ThirdEdition RonaldHyam BRITAIN’SIMPERIALCENTURY,1815–1914:ASTUDYOFEMPIREANDEXPANSION IftekharIqbal THEBENGALDELTA Ecology,StateandSocialChange,1843–1943 BrianIreland THEUSMILITARYINHAWAI’I Colonialism,MemoryandResistance RobinJeffrey POLITICS,WOMENANDWELL-BEING HowKeralabecamea‘Model’ GeroldKrozewski MONEYANDTHEENDOFEMPIRE BritishInternationalEconomicPolicyandtheColonies,1947–58 SloanMahoneandMeganVaughan(editors) PSYCHIATRYANDEMPIRE JavedMajeed AUTOBIOGRAPHY,TRAVELANDPOST-NATIONALIDENTITY FrancineMcKenzie REDEFININGTHEBONDSOFCOMMONWEALTH1939–1948 ThePoliticsofPreference GabrielPaquette ENLIGHTENMENT,GOVERNANCEANDREFORMINSPAINANDITSEMPIRE1759–1808 SandhyaL.Polu PERCEPTIONOFRISK Policy-MakingOnInfectiousDiseaseinIndia1892–1940 JenniferRegan-Lefebvre IRISHANDINDIAN TheCosmopolitanPoliticsofAlfredWebb RicardoRoque HEADHUNTINGANDCOLONIALISM AnthropologyandtheCirculationofHumanSkullsinthePortugueseEmpire,1870–1930 MichaelSilvestri IRELANDANDINDIA Nationalism,EmpireandMemory JohnSingletonandPaulRobertson ECONOMICRELATIONSBETWEENBRITAINANDAUSTRALASIA1945–1970 AparnaVaidik IMPERIALANDAMANS ColonialEncounterandIslandHistory KimA.Wagner(editor) THUGGEE BanditryandtheBritishinEarlyNineteenth-CenturyIndia JonE.Wilson THEDOMINATIONOFSTRANGERS ModernGovernanceinEasternIndia,1780–1835 CambridgeImperialandPost-ColonialStudiesSeries SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–333–91908–8(Hardback) 978–0–333–91909–5(Paperback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastandingorder.Pleasecontact yourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,the titleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG21 6XS,England The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815 Kit Candlin AustralianResearchCouncilPostdoctoralFellow,UniversityofSydney ©KitCandlin2012 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 20(cid:18)(cid:19) Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2012by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN978–0–230–35408–1 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 ISBN (cid:26)(cid:24)(cid:25)(cid:14)(cid:18)(cid:14)(cid:20)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:14)(cid:20)(cid:21)(cid:23)(cid:19)(cid:17)(cid:14)(cid:19) ISBN (cid:26)(cid:24)(cid:25)(cid:14)(cid:18)(cid:14)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:24)(cid:14)(cid:17)(cid:20)(cid:17)(cid:25)(cid:18)(cid:14)(cid:25) (eBook) DOI 10.1057/(cid:26)(cid:24)(cid:25)(cid:18)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:24)(cid:17)(cid:20)(cid:17)(cid:25)(cid:18)(cid:25) For Kimberley Gen oll an collan ve This page intentionally left blank Contents Map ix Acknowledgements x Author’sNoteonSources xiv Introduction:TheVeryLimitsofImagination:TheTransientWorld oftheSouthernCaribbean xvi 1 WhatBecameoftheFedonRebellion? 1 2 TheQueenofDemerara 24 3 PaperTigersandCrookedDispositions 51 4 ThePlanterandtheGovernor 75 5 Poison,ParanoiaandSlaveryontheVergeofEmpire 96 6 TheTortureofLouisaCalderon 118 7 ThatBusinessofRosettaSmith 138 8 TheImportunateRevolutionontheMain 157 Notes 177 Bibliography 225 Index 241 vii This page intentionally left blank Map ix

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The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815 Kit Candlin CambridgeImperialandPost-ColonialStudiesSeries GeneralEditors:MeganVaughan,Kings’College,CambridgeandRichardDrayton,CorpusChristiCollege, Cambridge Thisinformativeseriescoversthebroadspanofmodernimperialhistorywhilealsoexploringtherecent developmentsinformercolonialstateswhereresiduesofempirecanstillbefound.Thebooksprovidein- depthexaminationsofempiresascompetingandcomplementarypowerstructuresencouragingthereader toreconsidertheirunderstandingofinternationalandworldhistoryduringrecentcenturies. Titlesinclude: SunilS.Amrith DECOLONIZINGINTERNATIONALHEALTH IndiaandSoutheastAsia,1930–65 TonyBallantyne ORIENTALISMANDRACE AryanismintheBritishEmpire PeterF.BangandC.A.Bayly(editors) TRIBUTARYEMPIRESINGLOBALHISTORY JamesBeattie EMPIREANDENVIRONMENTALANXIETY,1800–1920 Health,AestheticsandConservationinSouthAsiaandAustralasia RobertJ.Blyth THEEMPIREOFTHERAJ EasternAfricaandtheMiddleEast,1858–1947 RoyBridges(editor) IMPERIALISM,DECOLONIZATIONANDAFRICA StudiesPresentedtoJohnHargreaves L.J.Butler COPPEREMPIRE MiningandtheColonialStateinNorthernRhodesia,c.1930–64 KitCandlin THELASTCARIBBEANFRONTIER,1795–1815 HilaryM.Carey(editor) EMPIRESOFRELIGION NandiniChatterjee THEMAKINGOFINDIANSECULARISM Empire,LawandChristianity,1830–1960 EsmeCleall MISSIONARYDISCOURSE NegotiatingDifferenceintheBritishEmpire,c.1840–95 T.J.Cribb(editor) IMAGINEDCOMMONWEALTH CambridgeEssaysonCommonwealthandInternationalLiteratureinEnglish MichaelS.Dodson ORIENTALISM,EMPIREANDNATIONALCULTURE India,1770–1880 JostDülfferandMarcFrey(editors) ELITESANDDECOLONIZATIONINTHETWENTIETHCENTURY UlrikeHillemann ASIANEMPIREANDBRITISHKNOWLEDGE ChinaandtheNetworksofBritishImperialExpansion B.D.Hopkins THEMAKINGOFMODERNAFGHANISTAN ThirdEdition RonaldHyam BRITAIN’SIMPERIALCENTURY,1815–1914:ASTUDYOFEMPIREANDEXPANSION IftekharIqbal THEBENGALDELTA Ecology,StateandSocialChange,1843–1943 BrianIreland THEUSMILITARYINHAWAI’I Colonialism,MemoryandResistance RobinJeffrey POLITICS,WOMENANDWELL-BEING HowKeralabecamea‘Model’ GeroldKrozewski MONEYANDTHEENDOFEMPIRE BritishInternationalEconomicPolicyandtheColonies,1947–58 SloanMahoneandMeganVaughan(editors) PSYCHIATRYANDEMPIRE JavedMajeed AUTOBIOGRAPHY,TRAVELANDPOST-NATIONALIDENTITY FrancineMcKenzie REDEFININGTHEBONDSOFCOMMONWEALTH1939–1948 ThePoliticsofPreference GabrielPaquette ENLIGHTENMENT,GOVERNANCEANDREFORMINSPAINANDITSEMPIRE1759–1808 SandhyaL.Polu PERCEPTIONOFRISK Policy-MakingOnInfectiousDiseaseinIndia1892–1940 JenniferRegan-Lefebvre IRISHANDINDIAN TheCosmopolitanPoliticsofAlfredWebb RicardoRoque HEADHUNTINGANDCOLONIALISM AnthropologyandtheCirculationofHumanSkullsinthePortugueseEmpire,1870–1930 MichaelSilvestri IRELANDANDINDIA Nationalism,EmpireandMemory JohnSingletonandPaulRobertson ECONOMICRELATIONSBETWEENBRITAINANDAUSTRALASIA1945–1970 AparnaVaidik IMPERIALANDAMANS ColonialEncounterandIslandHistory KimA.Wagner(editor) THUGGEE BanditryandtheBritishinEarlyNineteenth-CenturyIndia JonE.Wilson THEDOMINATIONOFSTRANGERS ModernGovernanceinEasternIndia,1780–1835 CambridgeImperialandPost-ColonialStudiesSeries SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–333–91908–8(Hardback) 978–0–333–91909–5(Paperback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastandingorder.Pleasecontact yourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,the titleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG21 6XS,England The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815 Kit Candlin AustralianResearchCouncilPostdoctoralFellow,UniversityofSydney ©KitCandlin2012 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 20(cid:18)(cid:19) Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthiswork inaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2012by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN978–0–230–35408–1 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 ISBN (cid:26)(cid:24)(cid:25)(cid:14)(cid:18)(cid:14)(cid:20)(cid:21)(cid:26)(cid:14)(cid:20)(cid:21)(cid:23)(cid:19)(cid:17)(cid:14)(cid:19) ISBN (cid:26)(cid:24)(cid:25)(cid:14)(cid:18)(cid:14)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:24)(cid:14)(cid:17)(cid:20)(cid:17)(cid:25)(cid:18)(cid:14)(cid:25) (eBook) DOI 10.1057/(cid:26)(cid:24)(cid:25)(cid:18)(cid:18)(cid:20)(cid:24)(cid:17)(cid:20)(cid:17)(cid:25)(cid:18)(cid:25) For Kimberley Gen oll an collan ve This page intentionally left blank Contents Map ix Acknowledgements x Author’sNoteonSources xiv Introduction:TheVeryLimitsofImagination:TheTransientWorld oftheSouthernCaribbean xvi 1 WhatBecameoftheFedonRebellion? 1 2 TheQueenofDemerara 24 3 PaperTigersandCrookedDispositions 51 4 ThePlanterandtheGovernor 75 5 Poison,ParanoiaandSlaveryontheVergeofEmpire 96 6 TheTortureofLouisaCalderon 118 7 ThatBusinessofRosettaSmith 138 8 TheImportunateRevolutionontheMain 157 Notes 177 Bibliography 225 Index 241 vii This page intentionally left blank Map ix

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