Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems

ISBN-13: 9780521435444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 248 str.

Hilary Beckles

Opis

An essential book for students and teachers written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians.

Spis treści

1. The indigenous Caribbean people; 2. The European-Caribbean project; 3. Spanish settlement and indigenous resistance; 4. Other European settlement and rivalry; 5. Europe and the spread of chattel slavery in Africa; 6. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans; 7. The Caribbean economy and enslavement; 8. Making and marketing sugar; 9. African culture and community life; 10. Surviving enslavement: wealth and health factors; 11. Revolt and marronage; 12. Armed revolt; 13. Caribbean emancipations; Additional sources for teachers; Glossary; Index.