Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: Perspectives from the Caribbean, Africa, and the African Diapsora Book

	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Colonisation, Enslavement and Resistance
1	'The wickedest city in the world': Port Royal, commercial hub of the seventeenth-century Caribbean	3
2	Slavery and cotton culture in the Bahamas	21
3	Loyalists mainly to themselves: the 'Black Loyalist' diaspora to the Bahamas, 1783-c.1820	44
4	Lineage slavery at New Calabar, Eastern Niger Delta, 1850-1950: a reassessment	69
5	Innovations in sugar-cane mill technology in Jamaica, 1760-1830	93
6	Planting and processing techniques on Jamaican coffee plantations during slavery	112
7	'A matron in rank, a prostitute in manners': the Manning divorce of 1741 and class, gender, race and the law in eighteenth-century Jamaica	133
8	Land, labour and social status: non-sugar producers in Jamaica in slavery and freedom	153
9	Resistance and rebellion of African captives in the transatlantic slave trade before becoming seasoned labourers in the British Caribbean, 1690-1807	181
10	'Deportees in Nova Scotia': the Jamaican Maroons, 1796-1800	206
11	'War dances': slave leisure and anti-slavery in the British-colonised Caribbean	223
Pt. 2	Massa/Missus Day Done?
12	'The 11 o' clock flog': women, work and labour law in the British Caribbean	249
13	Pricing freedom: evaluating the costs of emancipation and of manumission	273
14	Black and White: slaves, slavery and British society, 1600-1807	303
15	'The hundredth year of our emancipation': the dialectics of resistance in slavery and freedom	320
16	The 'Other Middle Passage?' nineteenth-century bonded labour migration and the legacy of the slavery debate in the British-colonised Caribbean	343
17	Ethnicity and economic behaviour in nineteenth-century Guyana	377
18	'Young woman from the country': a profile of domestic servants in Jamaica, 1920-1970	396
19	'Restrictions and freedoms for women in northern Cameroons to 1961: an examination of the liberating influences'	416
20	Politics at the 'grassroots' in free Jamaica: St. James 1838-1865	449
21	'A brave and loyal people': the role of the Maroons in the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865	467
22	Dominican plantations and land tenure in the Dominican Republic, 1900-1916	490
23	Race, labour and politics in Jamaica and St. Kitts, 1909-1940: A comparative survey of the roles of the National Club of Jamaica and the Workers League of St. Kitts	502
	Contributors	524
	Index	529