Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems

by Hilary McD. Beckles , Verene A. Shepherd

• ISBN13: 9780521435444
• ISBN10: 0521435447
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Liberties Lost, like its companion volume, Freedoms Won, has been written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Professor Hilary Beckles and Professor Verene Shepherd. The book covers the history syllabus offered by the Caribbean Examinations Council, including the new Caribbean Advanced Proficiency syllabus in Caribbean/Atlantic history. It is of value to students and teachers engaged in the Cambridge A-Level syllabus on the post-emancipation history of the Caribbean, to college/university students participating in foundation courses in Caribbean history, as well as to the general reader seeking information on the history of the region. Topics covered in Liberties Lost include indigenous societies, Europe's Caribbean project; European settlement and rivalry; the Transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans; sugar and slavery; African culture and community life; revolt and resistance; and finally, Caribbean emancipation.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The indigenous Caribbean people

The European-Caribbean Project

Spanish settlement and indigenous resistance

Other European settlement and rivalry

Europe and the spread of chattel slavery in Africa

The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans

The Caribbean economy and enslavement

Making and marketing sugar

African culture and community life

Surviving enslavement: wealth and health factors

Revolt and marronage

Armed revolt

Caribbean emancipations

Additional sources for teachers.

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