Empire, enslavement, and freedom in the Caribbean / Michael Craton.

Notes : p.457-511

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-511) and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- pt. 1 Colonisation and Imperialism -- 1 The Historical Roots of the Plantation Model (starting p. 1) -- 2 The West Indies and North America (starting p. 33) -- 3 The Planters' World in the British West Indies (starting p. 51) -- 4 Property and Propriety: Land Tenure and Slave Property in the creation of a British West Indian Plantocracy, 1612-1740 (starting p. 68) -- 5 Caribbean Vice Admiralty Courts and British Imperialism (starting p. 104) -- 6 Planters, British Imperial Policy and the Black Caribs of St Vincent (starting p. 117) -- pt. 2 7 The African background of American Slavery (starting p. 135) -- 8 Slavery and Slave Society in the British Caribbean (starting p. 149) -- 9 Jamaican Slavery (starting p. 161) -- 10 The Rope and the Cutlass: Slave Resistance in Plantation America (starting p. 185) -- 11 Hobbesian or Panglossian? The two extremes of Slave Conditions in the British West Indies, 1783-1834 (starting p. 203) -- 12 Changing Patterns of Slave Family in the British West Indies (starting p. 233) -- pt. 3 Transformations and Continuities -- 13 Slave Culture, Resistance and Emancipation in the British West Indies (starting p. 263) -- 14 Proto-Peasant Revolts? The late Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1816-32 (starting p. 282) -- 15 What and Who, to Whom and What: The significance of Slave Resistance in Capitalism and Slavery (starting p. 306) -- 16 Continuity not Change: Late Slavery and Post-Emancipation Resistance in the British West Indies (starting p. 324) -- 17 Changing Sugar Technology and the Labour Nexus: The Search for a Unified Field Theory (starting p. 348) -- 18 Reshuffling the Pack: The Transition from Slavery to other Forms of Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890 (starting p. 356) -- 19 Transition to Free Wage Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890 (starting p. 414) -- 20 A Recipe for the Perfect Calalu: Island and Regional Identity in the West Indies (starting p. 439) -- Notes (starting p. 457) -- Index (starting p. 513)

"Empire Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean is a wide-ranging collection which draws on Professor Craton's extensive writing on the history, culture and historiography of the British Caribbean, coherently organised in three thematic units."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is one of the few single-authored collections of exclusively historical essays relating to the Caribbean. It mixes description, narrative and traditional historical analysis with the cliometric and cross-disciplinary methods of the New Social History."--Jacket.