This is a completely revised and expanded version of Caribbean Slave Society and Economy which has become a standard text in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic.
This new volume is made up of 17 sections comprising more than 70 articles which makes it the most comprehensive text of its kind available anywhere.
Each of the 17 sections has a short introduction which provides the context for the general theme and for the essays which follow.
The ambitiously wide range of coverage reflects the main themes of the most recent research and publication. The essays cover the sociology and economics of slavery, illustrating the dynamic relations between modes of production and social life. But it is the superstructure of slave systems that is the focus of a number of essays, highlighting the debate on race and colour relations, health and morality, religion, recreational culture, women, family organization and kinship patterns.
The selections also focus on the maturing anti-slavery consciousness and politics which are addressed as part of the discourse on social control and resistance. This theme provides part of the general background to the investigations of the disintegration of the slave system from the Haitian Revolution to Spanish Caribbean emancipation towards the end of the 19th Century.
Contents:
Introduction
Acknowledgments
SECTION I THE ATLANTIC SLAVERY PROJECT
SECTION 11 THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: CONQUEST, RESISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION
SECTION Ill IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL SLAVERY
SECTION IV SERVITUDE, SLAVERY AND NEW ECONOMIC ORDERS
SECTION V SLAVERY, FINANCE AND TRADE
SECTION VI THE WORK CULTURE OF THE ENSLAVED
SECTION VII SLAVERY AND CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION The First Phase
SECTION VIII SLAVERY AND CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION The Second Phase
SECTION IX RACE, CLASS, COLOUR AND THE POWER ORDER
SECTION X SEX, RACE AND THE GENDER ORDER
SECTION XI SUBALTERN AUTONOMY: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CULTURE
SECTION XII A DEADLY BUSINESS: MORTALITY, HEALTH, NUTRITION AND THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
SECTION XIII REJECTING SLAVERY: BLACKS SPEAK BACK
SECTION XIV CARIBBEAN WARS: MARRONAGE AND REBELLION
SECTION XV THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
SECTION XVI REBEL WOMEN: ANTI-SLAVERY FEMINIST VAN GUARD
SECTION XVII CAPITALISM, IDEOLOGY AND EMANCIPATION PROCESSES
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About The Author
Verene Shepherd is a Prof. Emerita of History and Gender Studies at The University of the West Indies, Mona, where she read for her BA and M.Phil Degrees in History. She also attended the University of Cambridge, where she read for her PhD. in History. From 1988-2012 she was in the Mona Department of History and from 2012 to 2017 served as University Director of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies, UWI.
Hilary McD. Beckles is Professor of Economic History at The University of the West Indies where he is also Vice Chancellor. He is author of several books on Caribbean and Atlantic history and culture.
