Abstract
This paper considers developments in printing prior to 1865 in the British colonies in the Caribbean plus those Dutch, Danish, French, and Swedish colonial possessions which were influenced by the British islands. The reasons for the establishment of presses in these West Indian colonies are examined. Official printing, newspapers, periodicals, and ephemera formed the mainstay of the West Indian printer's business. Though there was some literary publication at the end of the eighteenth century, accompanied by the start of subscription libraries, the decline of the planter class and the weakening of the sugar colonies' economic position prevented indigenous publishing from developing successfully.
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