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West India Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: SC89

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

  • 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

Contact:
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
868-662-2002 Ext 82132
868-662-9238 (Fax)