This volume looks at various aspects of slave societies in the Caribbean from the 17th century to the 19th century. It covers the growth of the slave system, the slave economies and social structure, political control, forms of resistance, and creolization and religious beliefs.
The slave trade, African slaves and the demography of the Caribbean to
1750, Colin A. Palmer; the demographic structure of the Caribbean slave
societies in the 18th and 19th centuries, Stanley L. Engerman and B.W.
Higman; the slave economies of the Caribbean - structure, performance,
evolution and structure, David Eltis; the social structure of the slave
societies in the Caribbean, Gad Heuman; maroon communities in the
circum-Caribbean, Silvia W. de Groot et al; social and political control in
slave society, Hiliary Beckles; forms of resistance to slavery, Michael
Craton; pluralism, creolization and culture, Franklin W. Knight; religious
beliefs, Mary Turner; the disintegration of the Caribbean slave systems
1789-1886, Franklin W. Knight.
