In The Shadow of the Plantation

Introduction I HISTORIOGRAPHY Woodville Marshall and Caribbean history by B. Brereton - 'Petticoat rebellion'?: the black women's body and voice in the struggles for freedom in colonial Jamaica by V.A. Shepherd - The making of the sugar revolution by B.W. Higman II PRODUCTION, CULTURE and RESISTANCE IN THE SLAVERY ERA The origins of slave rebellions in the middle passage by W. McGowan - The new 'negro' business: hiring in the British West Indies 1750-1810 by H. Cateau - Plantation slave settlements in Barbados, 1650s to 1834 by J.S. Handler - Enslaved children in the Berbice, with special reference to the government slaves, 1803-1831 by Alvin O. Thompson - Capital sentences against slaves in Barbados in the eighteenth century by K. Watson - Reassessing John Smith's influence on the Demerera slave revolt of 1823 by N. Titus - Crop over fetes and festivals in Caribbean slavery by H. McD. Beckles III FORGING A NEW SOCIETY Post-emancipation adjustments in the urban context: views from Bridgetown, Barbados by Pedro L.V. Welch - British aid and West Indian education 1835-45 by C. Campbell - Taxation as a tool of oppression in early post-emancipation British Guiana, 1838-48 by J. Rose - Land and creole politics in free Jamaica, the 1849 elections by S. Wilmot - The Bridgetown riot of 1872 by H. Carter IV POLITICAL and SOCIO-CULTURAL ISSUES Challenging the 'civilizing mission': cricket as a field of socio-cultural contestation in Jamaica, 1865-1920 by B. L. Moore and M. A. Johnson - The contestation for recreational space in Barbados, 1880-1910 by A. Downes - Peasants and citizenship in Trinidad and Guyana by K. Haraksingh - The roots of survival: agriculture in Trindidad and Tobago during World War II by R. Pemberton - Preparing for politics: the pre-PNM years of Eric Williams by B. Samaroo - Race class and ideology in post-colonial Trinidad, 1956-1991 by K. Singh