Boundaries of Belonging - English Jamaica and the Spanish Caribbean, 1655–1715

In the decades following England’s 1655 conquest of Spanish Jamaica, the western Caribbean became the site of overlapping and competing claims—to land, maritime spaces, and people. Boundaries of Belonging follows the stories of the individuals—licensed traders, smugglers, freedom seekers, religious refugees, pirates, and interlopers—who moved through the contested spaces of the western Caribbean.