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SUMMARY:Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbea
 n in the age of revolution - J'Nese Williams (University of Notre Dame)
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CONTACT:Olin Moctezuma
DESCRIPTION:In Britain\, a visible interest in botany could be a sign of s
 tatus and allegiance to 'improvement' in its various forms. In the British
  West Indies\, the local and imperial government was active in supporting 
 botany\, but the attitudes of the local people are less clear. The superin
 tendents of the government botanic gardens in St Vincent and Jamaica lamen
 ted leaving their active botanical social lives in Britain to toil in a pl
 ace where the 'planters mind nothing but sugar canes'. Despite the pessimi
 sm of the government botanists\, there was a botanical community on the Br
 itish sugar islands\, and its members ran agricultural societies\, kept lu
 sh private gardens\, and maintained a lively correspondence across the Car
 ibbean and the Atlantic. This paper will outline the contours of this bota
 nical community in the Anglo-Caribbean\, including some of the social role
 s that botanical interest played in island society.
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