Descript |
379p. |
Contents |
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 and 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 and Franklin W. Knight -- Social and political control in the slave society / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Forms of resistance to slavery / Michael Craton -- Pluralism, creolization and culture / Franklin W. Knight -- Religious beliefs / Mary Turner -- The disintegration of the Caribbean slave systems, 1772-1886 / Franklin W. Knight |
ISBN |
0333656059 (Macmillan : pbk.) |
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0333656040 (Macmillan : hbk.) |
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9231031465 (UNESCO) |
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