| Description |
xxii, 538 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'The wickedest city in the world' : Port Royal, commercial hub of the seventeenth-century Caribbean / Nuala Zahedieh -- Slavery and cotton culture in the Bahamas / Gail Saunders -- Loyalists mainly to themselves : the 'Black Loyalist' diaspora to the Bahamas, 1783-c.1820 / Michael Craton -- Lineage slavery at New Calabar, Eastern Niger Delta, 1850-1950 : a reassessment / Waibinte Wariboko -- Innovations in sugar-cane mill technology in Jamaica, 1760-1830 / Veront Satchell -- Planting and processing techniques on Jamaican coffee plantations during slavery / Kathleen E.A. Monteith -- 'A matron in rank, a prostitute in manners' : the Manning divorce of 1741 and class, gender, race and the law in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Trevor Burnard -- Land, labour and social status : non-sugar producers in Jamaica in slavery and freedom / Verene A. Shepherd -- Resistance and rebellion of African captives in the transatlantic slave trade before becoming seasoned labourers in the British Caribbean, 1690-1807 / Richard Sheridan -- 'Deportees in Nova Scotia' : the Jamaican Maroons, 1796-1800 / Allister Hinds -- 'War dances' : slave leisure and anti-slavery in the British-colonised Caribbean / Hilary McD. Beckles -- 'The 11 o'clock flog' : women, work and labour law in the British Caribbean / Mary Turner -- Pricing freedom : evaluating the costs of emancipation and of manumission / Stanley Engerman -- Black and White : slaves, slavery and British society, 1600-1807 / Jim Walvin -- 'The hundredth year of our emancipation' : the dialectics of resistance in slavery and freedom / O. Nigel Bolland -- The 'Other Middle Passage?' Nineteenth-century bonded labour migration and the legacy of the slavery debate in the British-colonised Caribbean / Verene Shepherd -- Ethnicity and economic behaviour in nineteenth-century Guyana / Brian L. Moore -- 'Young woman from the country' : a profile of domestic servants in Jamaica, 1920-1970 / Michele Johnson -- 'Restrictions and freedoms for women in northern Cameroons to 1961 : an examination of the liberating influences' / Richard Goodridge -- Politics at the 'grassroots' in free Jamaica : St James 1838-1865 / Swithin Wilmot -- 'A brave and loyal people' : the role of the Maroons in the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865 / Joy Lumsden -- Dominican plantations and land tenure in the Dominican Republic, 1900-1916 / Patrick Bryan -- Race, labour and politics in Jamaica and St Kitts, 1909-1940 : a comparative survey of the roles of the National Club of Jamaica and the Workers League of St Kitts / Glen Richards. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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History. |
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Caribbean Area.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects. |
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African diaspora -- History.
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African diaspora. |
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Equality -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Equality. |
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Civil rights -- Caribbean Area -- History.
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Civil rights. |
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Caribbean Area -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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Caribbean Area -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Caribbean Area -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
| Added Author |
Shepherd, Verene.
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| ISBN |
0312293631 paper |
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0312293623 cloth |
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