TY  - BOOK
AU  - Imbarrato,Susan Clair
TI  - Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada, 1753-1825: shifting fortunes of an early American family 
SN  - 9781421424620
AV  - F69 .I43 2018eb
U1  - 974.4/6 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Cary, Sarah Gray,
KW  - Plantation owners' spouses
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - History
KW  - Families
KW  - Chelsea
KW  - Grenada
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Plantations
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - Propriétaires de plantations
KW  - Conjoints
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Familles
KW  - Grenade
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - Femmes
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
KW  - fast
KW  - Chelsea (Mass.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Seeking fortune : Samuel Cary in St. Kitts and Grenada, 1764-1773 -- Building prosperity : Samuel and Sarah Cary Family in Grenada, 1774-1791 -- Relocating and adjusting : a family separated, Chelsea and St. George's, 1791- 1794 -- Slave revolts and shifting fortunes, Grenada, 1795-1797 -- Recovery and renewal, Grenada and Chelsea, 1797-1810 -- Sustaining a family, 1810-1826
N2  - "Susan Imbarrato tells the story of the Cary family of Chelsea, Massachusetts, who prospered as plantation owners and managers for nearly two decades in Grenada before their fortunes were substantially reversed following the slave revolts of 1795-1796 that upended the sugar trade and marked a significant turning point in the family's financial and social well-being. Working closely with archival materials that include letters, diaries, newspapers, a plantation manual, and business memoranda, the author places the Cary family story within the larger context of the transition from colonial America to the new republic and against the backdrop of the transatlantic sugar trade, the slave revolts, and the early abolitionist movement. With Sarah Gray Cary's quick intelligence and astute assessments as their guide, the Cary family adapts to their shifting fortunes in remarkable ways. This study offers a new perspective on this time period using the extensive mother-son correspondence as they address family matters, share opinions on political and social events, discuss literature and philosophy, and speculate on business and career possibilities. Throughout, Sarah provides a steadying influence that both sustains and encourages, all the while successfully managing households in both Grenada and Chelsea that will eventually include thirteen children. The methodology of this study combines New Historicism with close readings. A must-read for historians, literary scholars, students, and the general public interested in American history and literature, women's history, the transatlantic sugar trade, slavery, abolition, letter writing, family correspondence, the Revolutionary Era, and the new republic"--
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