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1 online resource (596 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- SECTION ONE: Expectations of a New Beginning -- Introduction -- 1 Toussaint L'Ouverture and the War Economy of Saint Dominigue, 1796-1802 -- 2 'We be wise to many more tings': Blacks' Hopes and Expectations of Emancipation -- 3 Former Slaves: Responses to Emancipation in Cuba -- 4 The Creolization of Caribbean History: The Emancipation Era and a Critique of Dialectical Analysis -- SECTION TWO: Emancipation in Action -- Introduction -- 1 The Evolution of Land and Labour in the Haitian Revolution 1791-1820 |
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2 Emancipation in Action: Workers and Wage Conflict in Jamaica, 1838-1840 -- 3 The Flight from the Estates Reconsidered: The British West Indies 1838-1842 -- 4 Metayage in the Sugar Industry of the British Windward Islands, 1838-1865 -- 5 Labour Relations in Post-Slavery Martinique and Guadeloupe 1848-1870 -- SECTION THREE: Peasants and Planters -- Introduction -- 1 The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries -- 2 Notes on Peasant Development in the West Indies since 1838 -- 3 Systems of Domination after Slavery: The Control of Land and Labour in the British West Indies after 1838 |
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4 The Share System in the Bahamas in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries -- SECTION FOUR: Immigrants and Indentured Labourers -- Introduction -- 1 Chinese Contract Labour in Cuba, 1847-1874 -- 2 The Evolution of Long-term Labour Contracts in Trinidad and British Guiana, 1834-1863 -- 3 The Social Impact of Portuguese Immigration into British Guiana after Emancipation -- 4 Immigration and Indentureship in the French West Indies, 1848-1870 -- SECTION FIVE: Government, Political Control and Popular Revolt -- Introduction -- 1 Before and After 1865 |
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2 The Abortive Revolution of 1876 in Barbados -- 3 Continuity Not Change: The Incidence of Unrest among Ex-slaves in the British West Indies, 1838-1876 -- 4 Control and Resistance Among Overseas Indian Workers: A Study of Labour on the Sugar Plantations of Trinidad, 1875-1917 -- SECTION SIX: Women and Gender -- Introduction -- 1 Gender Roles in Caribbean Agricultural Labour -- 2 Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago, 1845-1917 -- 3 Black Women, Economic Roles and Cultural Traditions -- 4 Emancipation through Servitude: Aspects of the Condition of Indian Women in Jamaica 1845-1945 |
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5 Women and Crime in Late 19th Century Trinidad -- SECTION SEVEN: Social Policy and Class Formation -- Introduction -- 1 Social and Economic Obstacles to the Development of Popular Education in Post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1865 -- 2 The Development of Medical Services in Trinidad and British Guiana, 1841-1873 -- 3 The Development of an Identity: The Black Middle Class of Trinidad in the later 19th Century -- 4 The Black Middle Class in 19th Century Jamaica -- 5 Consensus and Conflict over the Provision of Elementary Education -- SECTION EIGHT: The Sugar Industry: Crisis and Adjustments |
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Introduction |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shepherd, Verene
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Beckles, H
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| ISBN |
9789766377823 |
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9766377820 |
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