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This collection offers the only single-volume treatment in English of the Lesser Antilles from the time of Columbus to the abolition of slavery. The essays show how the Lesser Antilles emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries as among the most densely populated and advanced economic zones in the world and how they served as stepping-stones for the expansion of the slave-based plantation system in the Americas. Contents: 1. Columbus Was a Cannibal: Myth and the First Encounters, by William F. Keegan 2. Visions of Cannibals: Distant Islands and Distant Lands in Taino World Image, by Louis Allaire 3. After the Encounter: Disease and Demographics in the Lesser Antilles, by Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild C. Ornelas Part II: War and Imperial Rivalries 4. The Black Caribs of St. Vincent: A Reevaluation, by Michael Craton 5. English Settlement in the Lesser Antilles during War and Peace, 1603-1660, by John C. Appleby 6. Redcoats and Slaves in the British Caribbean, by Andrew O'Shaughnessy 7. Crisscrossing Empires: Ships, Sailors, and Resistance in the Lesser Antilles in the Eighteenth Century, by Julius S. Scott Part III: Migration, Trade, and the Transatlantic Economy 8. Europe, the Lesser Antilles, and Economic Expansion, 1600-1800, by Stanley L. Engerman 9. Opportunity and Mobility in Early Barbados, by Alison F. Games 10. The British Transatlantic Slave Trade before 1714: Annual Estimates of Volume and Direction, by David Eltis 11. "Jesus Christ Was Good, but Trade Was Better": An Overview of the Transit Trade of the Dutch Antilles, 1634-1795, by P. C. Emmer 12. Citizens of St. Eustatius, 1781: A Historical and Archaeological Study, by Norman F. Barka Part IV: Slavery 13. Ameliorating Slavery: The Leeward Islands Slave Act of 1798, by David Barry Gaspar 14. Free Coloreds and Slaves in Revolutionary Guadeloupe: Politics and Political Consciousness, by Anne Protin-Dumon 15. The Slaves and Free Coloreds of Martinique during the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions: Three Moments of Resistance, by David Geggus Part V: Abolition and Emancipation 16. Beyond and Below the Merivale Paradigm:Dominica's First 100 Days of Freedom, by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 17. "Birth-Pangs of a New Order": Special Magistrate John Anderson and the Apprenticeship in St. Vincent, by Roderick A. McDonald 18. The Long Good-bye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective, by Seymour Drescher Robert L. Paquette
is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at
Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He is the author of Sugar
Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the
Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba, which won the
Elsa Goveia Prize in Caribbean history.
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"These essays not only provide much new information about this region but also contribute to the broader understanding of global history." -- Colonial Latin American Historical Review
"This superior set of splendidly edited and introduced essays is interdisciplinary, cross-cultural history at its best. Although intellectually sophisticated and focused on difficult problems, the essays are clearly written, free of jargon, and accessible to students and general readers as well as invaluable for specialists."-- Eugene D. Genovese |
