Caribbean

Name: Caribbean
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ISBN: 9780340763636

ISBN-10: 0340763639

ISBN-13: 9780340763636

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gad Heuman

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Columbus "discovered" the Caribbean, not North America, and it was in the Caribbean that Amerindians first felt the effects of European steel, gunpowder, and (deadlier by far) microbes. The region became a pawn in the European struggle for empire and, later, a significant player in the developing Atlantic economy. Its economic importance rested on a substructure of African slavery, which provided labor for the numerous plantations across the region. However, slaves resisted slavery and, ultimately, the Abolitionist cause was carried successfully, initially in the British parliament and gradually elsewhere. Emancipation did not provide solutions to the ancillary ills of servitude--poverty,…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 5/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface


Illustrations



The Amerindians and European Patterns of Settlement



Sugar and Slavery



Slavery, Work and the Slaves' Economy



Neither Black Nor White



The World the Planters Made



Slave Resistance: Africans, Maroons and Women



The Haitian Revolution



The Abolition Debates



Race, Racism and Equality



From Slavery to Freedom



Riots and Resistance in the Aftermath of Emancipation



The Africanization of the Caribbean



The American Century



Labour Protests and the 1930s



The Revolutionary Caribbean



Contemporary Themes



The Cultures of the Caribbean


Notes


Suggestions for further reading


Index