As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations
of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage
slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural
exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity
in England. She demonstrates that the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important,
though uncounted, colonial export.