A Pre-emancipation History of the West Indies

The aim of this book is to produce a text of sufficient depth for examination purposes, which at the same time caters for the understanding of students and promotes an adequate grasp of the subject.

This book has been produced as a sequel to the previous publication entitled 'A Pre-Emancipation History of the West Indies, and it is designed to serve the same general purpose of assisting students to prepare for examinations.

Books about Canes and Chains

Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The authors examine how the lingual diversity of the region has affected the historian's ability to coalesce an historical account. The second half of

A comparative history of the emancipation process in the British Caribbean during the 1830s and the United States during the 1860s, focusing particularly on the fundamentally different political language used by former slaves and slaveholders to understand and discuss slavery, freedom, and the transition between the two.