General History of the Carribean UNESCO Vol.3

The Slave Societies of the Caribbean

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• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• Print ISBN:
  9781403975911
• Subtopic: North American History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781349737703
• Index: History

Volume 3 looks at various aspects of slave societies in the region from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Throughout the tortuous history of the Caribbean, nothing exceeded in fundamental importance the twin experiences of slavery and the plantation system, the defining episodes of Caribbean social reality. Topics addressed include: European 'settler colonies, ' the sugar revolutions, forms of resistance, the influence of creolization and religious beliefs, and the place of the Maroon communities. Knight also examines the internal and external forces that led to the eventual collapse of the Caribbean slave system.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Description of the Project
• List of Contributors
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• 1 The slave trade, Mrican slavers and the demography of the Caribbean to 1750
• 2 The demographic structure of the Caribbean slave societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• 3 The slave economies of the Caribbean: Structure, performance, evolution and Significance
• 4 The social structure of the slave societies in the Caribbean
• 5 Maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean
• 6 Social and political control in the slave society
• 7 Forms of resistance to slavery
• 8 Pluralism, creolization and culture
• 9 Religious beliefs
• 10 The disintegration of the Caribbean slave systems, 1772-1886
• Bibliography
• Index