On 30 Aug., 04:28, "augustae" <augus...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Thanks, Peter !!  That was so very kind and patient of you to do that.  I > appreciate the time I know you must have spent exploring it. > > Augusta > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Spring" <spr...@surfbvi.com> > To: <caribb...@rootsweb.com>; "Augusta Elmwood" <augus...@bellsouth.net> > Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2009 21:09 > Subject: [Carib] Historical Research and Information Service (on) Saint > Domingue/ Haiti (was: From the GHC Liste ...) > > > **After dissecting this interesting web site, I can describe its main > > contents at present, but be aware that its pages may be removed for > > revision and new ones added by its originator, Dr Oliver Gliech, at any > > time, .as he is only in the early stages of developing this "Historical > > Research and Information Service (on) Saint Domingue/ Haiti".  It is > > based on the resources he consulted for his doctoral thesis on "The > > Slave Uprising of Saint-Domingue and the French Revolution'' (to be > > published in 2010) and will be the first part of a Regional History of > > Latin America. Multilingual versions of his web pages will be linked > > through icons of the French, German, UK and U.S national flags (two- Zitierten Text ausblenden - > > - Zitierten Text anzeigen - Dear colleagues, I am the author of the cited website Domingino. If you have any questions concerning the list of former Domingan plantation owners or the scientific quality of the service, I am ready to answer them here. >From time to time I will add new material of general interest on my website; many of these informations will be free of charge. Today I made the official "list of parishes and municipalities of the former colony of Saint Domingue", dressed by the French Royal Indemnity Commission in 1829, available to the public. You may find it here: http://www.domingino.de/stdomin/index_st_dom_eng.html. Best wishes, Dr. des. Oliver Gliech (Berlin/Germany) gliech1@zedat.fu-berlin.de

We must thank Dr Gliech for introducing himself to our List and updating us on the development of his web site. He should feel free to correct any inaccuracies in my description of it. I have various reasons for my interest in his work, apart from wishing to underline its value in telling us so much about the history of half of Hispaniola, an island whose colonisation and struggles for independence are only occasionally mentioned on our list: 1. Income from migrants to the cane fields of the D.R. (Dominican Republic) was important to the economy of the BVI (British Virgin Islands) up to the 1960s, but the flow is now reversed, spear-headed by their Spanish-speaking descendants seeking to share in the BVI's modern prosperity, based on the tourism and financial services industries. The history of the two parts of Hispaniola (modern Haiti and the DR) are closely intertwined (still evident during a recent holiday in the DR), although most Haitians reaching the BVI now are illegal immigrants seeking to enter the USA through the USVI (United States Virgin Islands) 2. Germans settled throughout the Caribbean, but their attempts to establish their own colonies in the Virgin Islands archipelago in the late 17th century were thwarted by Britain and Denmark. After an abortive attempt to set up a plantation on St Thomas, slave traders from Brandenburg (capital: Berlin) tried to establish themselves on Peter Island, just out of sight from my home, but Colonel Codrington, Governor of the Leeward Islands, forced them out. 3. The successful transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States in 1917 (during the First World War) was driven by the US's fears that they would fall into German hands, but they followed two earlier abortive agreements to do so. The first treaty, to transfer just St Thomas and St John to the USA, was signed in 1867, after a new government in Denmark had overcome opposition to the loss of more territory, as recent wars with Austria and the German state of Prussia (capital: Berlin) had forced the Danes to cede to them its duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. ////// 4.. My paternal grandfather was also born in Berlin, several decades before Dr Gliech. I envy his linguistic abilities, as my own knowledge of German is sadly under-developed. Best wishes Peter Moll Tortola, BVI O.Gliech <gliech1@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote 11/09/2009: Dear colleagues, I am the author of the cited website Domingino. If you have any questions concerning the list of former Domingan plantation owners or the scientific quality of the service, I am ready to answer them here. >From time to time I will add new material of general interest on my website; many of these informations will be free of charge. Today I made the official "list of parishes and municipalities of the former colony of Saint Domingue", dressed by the French Royal Indemnity Commission in 1829, available to the public. You may find it here: http://www.domingino.de/stdomin/index_st_dom_eng.html. Best wishes, Dr. des. Oliver Gliech (Berlin/Germany) > On 30 Aug., 04:28, "augustae" <augus...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> Thanks, Peter !! That was so very kind and patient of you to do that. I >> appreciate the time I know you must have spent exploring it. >> >> Augusta >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Spring" <spr...@surfbvi.com> >> To: <caribb...@rootsweb.com>; "Augusta Elmwood" <augus...@bellsouth.net> >> Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2009 21:09 >> Subject: [Carib] Historical Research and Information Service (on) Saint >> Domingue/ Haiti (was: From the GHC Liste ...) >> **After dissecting this interesting web site, I can describe its main >> contents at present, but be aware that its pages may be removed for >> revision and new ones added by its originator, Dr Oliver Gliech, at any >> time, as he is only in the early stages of developing this "Historical >> Research and Information Service (on) Saint Domingue/ Haiti". It is >> based on the resources he consulted for his doctoral thesis on "The >> Slave Uprising of Saint-Domingue and the French Revolution" (to be >> published in 2010) and will be the first part of a Regional History of >> Latin America. Multilingual versions of his web pages will be linked >> through icons of the French, German, UK and U.S national flags.... (more)