Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword: Dr Ali Moussa-Iye
Preface
Sir Hilary McD. Beckles: Academic · Advocate · Administrator
Introduction
Section 1: Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean and Early Labour Systems
Carolyn Cooper
One of a Handful Still Alive: Strains of Resistance in the Fiction of Jamaica Kincaid
Ralph E. Gonsalves
Exterminate the Savages: Genocide in the Windwards
Lennox Honychurch
The Creation and Survival of Dominica's Kalinago Territory
Section 2: The Trans-Atlantic Trafficking in Africans & African Chattel Enslavement
Ahmed N. Reid
Royalty and Reparations: The British Royal Family and the Trade in Enslaved Africans
Heather Cateau
Sugar Plantation Papers: The Eighteenth Century 'Selfie' - Revisioning Enslavement in the Caribbean
Pedro Welch
Amelioration and the Planter Response in the 1820s: Glimpses from Barbados
Nicholas Draper
Annuities in the British Caribbean Plantation Economy
Section 3: African Resistance and Its Multiple Roots
Curtis Jacobs
The Corps of Loyal Black Rangers in Grenada, 1795-1807: Slavery's Ultimate Weapon
Rhoda Reddock
Claiming Sovereignty within Regimes of Unfreedom: Women, Gender and Caribbean Slave Systems
Nicole Phillip-Dowe
'A Cry for Freedom': Examination of Three Revolutions in Grenada's History - 1795, 1951 and 1979
Rita Pemberton
Captivity, Coffle, and Convoy: Mental Health and the Response of Captive Africans During the Journey to the Caribbean
Section 4: Gender Discourses in Caribbean History
Brinsley Samaroo
Side By Side, Not One Behind the Other: Women in Labour and Politics in Trinbago in the Post-Emancipation Era
Rodney Worrell
Women in the Barbadian Garveyite Movement, 1919-1937
Henderson D. Carter
Standing Shoulder to Shoulder: Women in the 1937 Rebellion in Barbados
Violet Eudine Barriteau
Constructing Feminist Knowledge in the Commonwealth Caribbean1 in the Era of Globalisation
Section 5: Post-Slavery Liberation Movements and Worker Empowerment
Woodville Marshall
Demonstrating Emancipation in August 1838: Some Evidence from Four Windward Islands
Janice Mayers
Winds Of Change? Challenges To Educational Status Quo In Barbados Before 1943
David V.C. Browne
Charles Duncan O'Neal and Clement Payne in Advancing the Cause of Labour in Early - Twentieth Century Barbados
Andrew Downes
The Post-Independence Economic Development of Barbados: Progress and Challenges
Section 6: Education and Administration
Henderson D. Carter
Building at the Base and in the Trenches: The Beckles Texts at the Secondary and Post-Secondary Level
Verene A. Shepherd
Slavery and the University:
The Case of The University of the West Indies
Carl Campbell
Historians and History at the University of our Dreams
Glenford D. Howe
Contextualising and Historicising the Beckles Era: Explanations for the Remarkable Survival, Rise and Recognition of The UWI as a Top Ranked Global University
Section 7: Culture, the Creative Imagination and Sports
Bridget Brereton
Escape to the Main: Venezuela in the Nineteenth-Century Trinidad Imaginary
C.M. Harclyde Walcott
Hilary McD. Beckles and Fields of Play
Marcia Burrowes
From Village to Graphic Novel: Mapping Meanings of Sail in Barbadian Land/ship Histories
Adekeye Adebajo
From Calypso to Colossus: The Anti Racist Golden Age of Caribbean Cricket
Trevor G. Marshall
Mythology versus Fact: The Legend of Lord Nelson in Barbado
