Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgements

PART ONE Colonisation and Imperialism

1 The Historical Roots of the Plantation Model

2 The West Indies and North America

3 The Planters' World in the British West Indies

4 Property and Propriety: Land Tenure and Slave Property in the creation of a British West Indian Plantocracy, 1612-1740

5 Caribbean Vice Admiralty Courts and British Imperialism

6 Planters, British Imperial Policy and the Black Caribs of St Vincent

PART TWO Slave Trade, Slavery and Slave Society

7 The African background of American Slavery

8 Slavery and Slave Society in the British Caribbean

9 Jamaican Slavery

10 The Rope and the Cutlass: Slave Resistance in Plantation America

11 Hobbesian or Panglossian? The two extremes of Slave Conditions in the British West Indies, 1783-1834

12 Changing Patterns of Slave Family in the British West Indies

PART THREE Transformations and Continuities

13 Slave Culture, Resistance and Emancipation in the British West Indies

14 Proto-Peasant Revolts? The late Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1816-32

15 What and Who, to Whom and What: The significance of Slave Resistance in Capitalism and Slavery

16 Continuity not Change: Late Slavery and Post-Emancipation Resistance in the British West Indies

17 Changing Sugar Technology and the Labour Nexus: The Search for a Unified Field Theory

18 Reshuffling the Pack: The Transition from Slavery to other Forms of Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890

19 Transition to Free Wage Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890

20 A Recipe for the Perfect Calalu: Island and Regional Identity in the West Indies

Notes

Index