West India Committee Records
Scope and Contents
The records include minute books of the general meetings of the Committee of Planters and Merchants together with its standing committees; Minutes of the Literary Committee; Minutes of the Committee of West India Merchants and other miscellaneous records.
Dates
- Creation: 1661-1953
Biographical / Historical
The West India Committee comprised merchants, traders and absentee planters engaged in West Indian trade in the eighteenth century. It functioned as a pressure group for West Indian interests during the era of the abolition of slavery. The Library of the West India Committee is held on deposit at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London.
Extent
5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The minute books were purchased by the Trinidad and Tobago Government and deposited at UWI Library. Microfilm copies of these are held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Additional West India Committee papers were acquired from the University of Warwick in March 1988.
- Title
- West India Committee Records
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies Repository
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
868-662-2002 Ext 82132
868-662-9238 (Fax)