Beckles, Hilary (Ed.) : University of the West Indies, Mona

Shepherd, Verene (Ed.) : University of the West Indies, Mona

This collection of nearly sixty articles covers major events of the Caribbean struggle for freedom from the Emancipation to the present, from Toussaint's Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Granada, and the Dominican Republic. Contributions analyze the post-slavery experience on the Spanish, Dutch, English and French islands, including the disintegration of slavery systems, attempts by resident social groups and imperial agencies to accept and adjust to new realities, and the maturing of nationalist consciousness in terms of constitutional and cultural independence. The themes covered include popular revolts and aborted revolutions, the sugar industry, immigration from Europe and imported labor from India and China, the role of gender in Caribbean economy and culture, economic diversification and labor movements, political integration and democracies, independence, and nationhood.

Contributors include Philip Curtin, Sidney Mintz, Rebecca Scott, Mary Turner, Roy Augier, Michael Craton, Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Eric Williams, Walter Rodney, Jamie Suchlicki, Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, Jorge Heine, and Cornelis Goslinga.

Introduction

SECTION ONE : Expectations of a New Beginning

1 Mats Lundahl
Toussaint L'Ouverture and the War Economy of Saint Dominigue, l796-l802

2 Woodville Marshall
'We be wise to many more tings': Blacks' Hopes and Expectations of Emancipation

3 Rebecca Scott
Former Slaves: Responses to Emancipation in Cuba

4 William Green
The Creolization of Caribbean History: The Emancipation Era and a Critique of Dialectical Analysis

SECTION TWO : Emancipation in Action

Introduction

1 Robert LaCerte
The Evolution of Land and Labour in the Haitian Revolution 1791-1820

2 Swithin Wilmot
Emancipation in Action: Workers and Wage Conflict in Jamaica, 1838-l840

3 Douglas Hall
The Flight from the Estates Reconsidered: The British West Indies l838-l842

4 Woodville Marshall
Metayage in the Sugar Industry of the British Windward Islands, l838-l865

5 Rosamunde A. Renard
Labour Relations in Post-Slavery Martinique and Guadeloupe l848-l870

SECTION THREE : Peasants and Planters

Introduction

1 Sidney Mintz
The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries

2 Woodville Marshall
Notes on Peasant Development in the West Indies since 1838

3 Nigel Bolland
Systems of Domination after Slavery: The Control of Land and Labour in the British West Indies after 1838

4 Howard Johnson
The Share System in the Bahamas in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries

SECTION FOUR : Immigrants and Indentured Labourers

Introduction

1 Mary Turner
Chinese Contract Labour in Cuba, 1847-1874

2 Keith Laurence
The Evolution of Long-term Labour Contracts in Trinidad and British Guiana, 1834-l863

3 Brian Moore
The Social Impact of Portuguese Immigration into British Guiana after Emancipation

4 Rosamunde A. Renard
Immigration and Indentureship in the French West Indies, 1848-l 870

SECTION FIVE : Government, Political Control and Popular Revolt

Introduction

1 Roy Augier
Before and After 1865

2 George Belle
The Abortive Revolution of 1876 in Barbados

3 Michael Craton
Continuity Not Change: The Incidence of Unrest among Ex-slaves in the British West Indies, l838-l876

4 Kusha Haraksingh
Control and Resistance Among Overseas Indian Workers: A Study of Labour on the Sugar Plantations of Trinidad, 1875-l9l7


SECTION SIX : Women and Gender

Introduction

1 Janet Momsen
Gender Roles in Caribbean Agricultural Labour

2 Rhoda Reddock
Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago, 1845-l917

3 Sidney Mintz
Black Women, Economic Roles and Cultural Traditions

4 Verene Shepherd
Emancipation through Servitude: Aspects of the Condition of Indian Women in Jamaica 1845-1945

5 David Trotman
Women and Crime in Late 19th Century Trinidad

SECTION SEVEN : Social Policy and Class Formation

Introduction

1 Carl Campbell
Social and Economic Obstacles to the Development of Popular Education in Post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1865

2 Keith Laurence
The Development of Medical Services in Trinidad and British Guiana, 1841-1873

3 Bridget Brereton
The Development of an Identity: The Black Middle Class of Trinidad in the later 19th Century

4 Patrick Bryan
The Black Middle Class in l9th Century Jamaica

5 M. K. Bacchus
Consensus and Conflict over the Provision of Elementary Education

SECTION EIGHT : The Sugar Industry: Crisis and Adjustments

Introduction

1 Philip Curtin
The British Sugar Duties and West Indian Prosperity

2 Richard Lobdell
Patterns of Investments and Credit in the British West Indian Sugar Industry, 1838-1897

3 Manuel Moreno Fraginals
Plantations in the Caribbean: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the late 19th Century

4 Eric Williams
American Capitalism and the Caribbean Economy

SECTION NINE : The Labour Movement: Decolonization and Democracy

Introduction

1 Walter Rodney
The Ruimveldt Riots: Demerara, British Guiana, 1905

2 Tony Martin
Marcus Garvey, the Caribbean, and the Struggle for Black Jamaican Nationhood

3 Richard Hart
Labour Rebellions of the 1930s

4 W. Arthur Lewis
The 1930s Social Revolution

SECTION TEN : Economic Diversification and Transformation

Introduction

1 Havelock Brewster and Clyde Thomas
Industrialization of the West Indies

2 Kari Levitt and Lloyd Best
Character of the Caribbean Economy

3 James L. Dietz
Operation Bootstrap and Economic Change in Puerto Rico

4 Cornelis Ch. Goslinga
The Industrialization of the Netherlands West Indies

SECTION ELEVEN : Political and Economic Integration

Introduction

1 Guy Lasserre and Albert Mabileau
The French Antilles and their status as Overseas Departments

2 Elizabeth Wallace
The Break-up of the British West Indies Federation

3 W.Andrew Axline
From Carifta to Caricom: Deepening Caribbean Integration

4 Gordon Lewis
American Colonial Integration of Puerto Rico

SECTION TWELVE : Independence, Nationhood and Identity

Introduction

1 Hilary Beckles
Divided to the Vein: The Problem of Race, Colour and Class Conflict in Haitian Nation-Building, l804-l820

2 Jaime Suchlicki
The Political Ideology of José Martí

3 Gordon Lewis
The Challenge of Independence in the British Caribbean

4 Rex Nettleford
Race, Identity and Independence in Jamaica

5 Hilary Beckles
Independence and the Social Crisis of Nationalism in Barbados

SECTION THIRTEEN : Protest, Socialism and Revolution

Introduction

1 Ramon Eduardo Ruiz
Cuba: the Making of the 1959 Revolution

2 Herman L. Beunett
The Black Power February Revolution in Trinidad

3 Jorge Heine
Grenada: A Revolution Aborted

4 James Ferguson
Pain and Protest: The 1984 Anti-I.M.F. Revolt in the Dominican Republic


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