Synopses & Reviews
Volume 3 looks at various aspects of slave societies in the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Throughout the tortuous history of the Caribbean, nothing exceeded in fundamental importance the twin experiences of slavery and the plantation system, the defining episodes of Caribbean social reality. Topics addressed include: European "settler colonies," the sugar revolutions, forms of resistance, the influence of creolization and religious beliefs, and the place of the Maroon communities. Knight also examines the internal and external forces that led to the eventual collapse of the Caribbean slave system.
About the Author
Franklin Knight is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University.
Table of Contents
Preface--Federico Mayor * Description of the Project--Roy Augier * Introduction--Franklin Knight * The Slave Trade, African Slavers, and the Demography of the Caribbean to 1750--Colin A. Palmer * The Demographic Structure of the Caribbean Slave Societies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries--Stanley L. Engerman & B.W. Higman * The Slave Economies of the Caribbean: Structure, Performance, Evolution and Significance--David Eltis * The Social Structure of the Slave Societies in the Caribbean--Gad Heuman * Maroon Communities in the Circum-Caribbean--Silvia W. de Groot, Catherine A. Christen & Franklin Knight * Social and Political Control in the Slave Society--Hilary McD Beckles * Forms of Resistance to Slavery--Michael Craton * Pluralism, Creolization and Culture--Franklin Knight * Religious Beliefs--Mary Turner * The Disintegration of the Caribbean Slave Systems, 1772-1886--Franklin Knight