Empire, Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	Acknowledgements
Pt. 1	Colonisation and Imperialism
1	The Historical Roots of the Plantation Model	1
2	The West Indies and North America	33
3	The Planters' World in the British West Indies	51
4	Property and Propriety: Land Tenure and Slave Property in the creation of a British West Indian Plantocracy, 1612-1740	68
5	Caribbean Vice Admiralty Courts and British Imperialism	104
6	Planters, British Imperial Policy and the Black Caribs of St Vincent	117
Pt. 2	Slave Trade, Slavery and Slave Society
7	The African background of American Slavery	135
8	Slavery and Slave Society in the British Caribbean	149
9	Jamaican Slavery	161
10	The Rope and the Cutlass: Slave Resistance in Plantation America	185
11	Hobbesian or Panglossian? The two extremes of Slave Conditions in the British West Indies, 1783-1834	203
12	Changing Patterns of Slave Family in the British West Indies	233
Pt. 3	Transformations and Continuities
13	Slave Culture, Resistance and Emancipation in the British West Indies	263
14	Proto-Peasant Revolts? The late Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1816-32	282
15	What and Who, to Whom and What: The significance of Slave Resistance in Capitalism and Slavery	306
16	Continuity not Change: Late Slavery and Post-Emancipation Resistance in the British West Indies	324
17	Changing Sugar Technology and the Labour Nexus: The Search for a Unified Field Theory	348
18	Reshuffling the Pack: The Transition from Slavery to other Forms of Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890	356
19	Transition to Free Wage Labour in the British Caribbean, 1780-1890	414
20	A Recipe for the Perfect Calalu: Island and Regional Identity in the West Indies	439
	Notes	457
	Index	513