Selwyn Carrington
Selwyn H. H. Carrington attended Concordia (Sir George Williams) University,
in Montreal, Canada, from which he graduated with a B.A, in History and
English. He then graduated with the M.A. in American History from the
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. On completion in 1970, he attended
Queen Mary College, University of London, where he studied for the Ph.D.
in Imperial History, graduating in 1975. His thesis was entitled "Economic
and Political Developments in the British West Indies during the American
Revolution." Professor Carrington lectured at St. Augustine Campus,
the University of the West Indies, where he was a Senior Lecturer in Caribbean
Economic and United States History.
In 1994, he joined the faculty of
the department at Howard University as Visiting Professor in Caribbean
History. In 1995-1996, he returned to Trinidad where he planned and executed
a conference on "Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later: Eric E.
Williams and the Modern Caribbean." He returned to Howard University
in 1996 to take up a full time appointment in Caribbean history. His areas
of specialization are Caribbean history, the Black Diaspora and the history
of the United States.
His research and publications include the books:
Saunders, Ivan J., Rostecki, R.R. and Carrington, Selwyn H. H., 'Early
Building in Winnipeg.' Manuscript Report No. 389, 7 Vols. (Park Canada,1979);
The British West Indies During the American Revolution (Royal Institute
of Linguistics and Anthropology/Foris Publications 1988); Heather Cateau
and Selwyn H. H. Carrington, Capitalism and Slavery Fifty Years Later:
Eric Eustace Williams-A Reassessment of the Man and His Work (Peter Lang
Publishing, 2000). He is also the author of several articles and chapters
in books: "A West Indian Assembly in Revolt: Barbadian Politics 1774-1782".
Journal of Caribbean History, Vol. 17 (1982), pp. 26-4;. "'Econocide'-Myth
or Reality" - The Question of West Indian Decline, 1783-1806"
Boletin de Estudios Latinoamericanos del Caribe. No. 36 (June,1984), pp.
13-48; "'Econocide'-Myth or Reality" A Post Scriptum".
Boletin, No. 36, June1984 , pp. 66-67; "The Union of Tobago and Trinidad:
The Emergence of Under-development and Dependency" in Sebastian,
R., Forging a New Democracy (Port of Spain,1985); "Teaching and Research
of United States History in the English-speaking West Indies" in
Lewis Hanke (ed.), Guide to the Study of United States History Outside
the U.S. 1945-1980 (Kraus International,1986), pp. 423-432; "Eighteenth
Century Political Conflict in the British Empire: A Case Study of St.
Vincent 1775-1779"; The Journal of Caribbean History, Vol. 20:2.
(1987); "The American Revolution and the British West Indies Economy"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. xvii:4, Spring 1987, pp. 823-849;
"The American Revolution and the British West Indies Economy in Barbara
L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman (eds.), British Capitalism and Caribbean
Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams (Cambridge University Press: New
York, 1987), pp. 135-162; The United States and Canada: the Struggle for
the British West Indian Trade, 1890-1912" in Barry Higman (ed.),
Papers in Caribbean Economic History (Social and Economic Studies, Vol.,
37, Nos. 1 & 2, (March-June1988), pp. 69-105; "Economic Determinism
vs. Humanitarianism: A Look at the Williams Hypothesis: in James Millette
(ed.), Freedome Road (José Martí Publishing House: Havana,
1988) pp. 213-238; "British West Indian Economic Decline and Abolition,
1775-1807: Revisiting Econocide" Canadian Journal of Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 14, No. 27 (1989), pp. 33-59; "The State
of the Debate on the Role of Capitalism on Ending the Slave System', Journal
of Caribbean History, Vol. 22, Nos. 1 & 2 (1990), pp. 20-41; "The
American Revolution and the Sugar Colonies, 1775-1783: in Jack P. Greene
and J. R. Pole (eds.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
(London 1991), pp. 508-517; "The American Revolution, British Policy
and the West Indian Economy, 1775-1808" Review Interamericana, Vol.
XXII: nos. 1-2 (Summer1992 ), pp. 72-108; "The British West Indies
Economy and the Industrial Capitalist Revolution., 1775-1846," in
Alan Cobley (ed.), Crossroads of Empire-Caribbean Connection, 1492-1992
(Cave Hill, Barbados: Department of History, University of the West Indies,
1994); "The United States and the British West Indian Trade, 1783-1807,
in Roderick A. McDonald (ed.), West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History
of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honor of Richard
Sheridan (The Press. University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1996),
pp. 149-168; "Management of Sugar Estates in the British West Indies
at the end of the Eighteenth Century", The Journal of Caribbean History,
Volume 33 (1999); "The American Revolution and the West Indies"
in A Companion to the American Revolution (Blackwell Publishers, U.K.:
December, 1999). Dr. Carrington is presently a historian with the African
Burial Ground Project.
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