Testing the Chains Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies

Name: Testing the Chains Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies
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ISBN: 9780801475283

ISBN-10: 0801475287

ISBN-13: 9780801475283

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michael Craton

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Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Plantation World and Slave Resistance Short of Rebellion



The Plantation at Work



Backra and Negar



Making a Life of Their Own



Quashie as Hero



Maroon Resistance, 1600-1775



Marronage: The General Context



The Jamaican Maroons: Origins, 1600-1700



Cudjoe's War and Its Aftermath, 1700-1775



African Slaves



The African Phase



Barbados, 1645-1701



Antigua Echoes Barbados, 1687-1737



Jamaica, 1760: Tacky's Revolt



New Colonies, Traditional Resistance, 1763-1802



Slave Resistance in the Age of Revolution, 1775-1815



An Inescapable Context?



The First Afro-Caribbean Slave Plot in Jamaica: Hanover, 1776



The Storm Breaks: Grenada and St. Vincent, 1795



The Pacification of the Windward Islands, 1796-1797



The Final Maroon War in Jamaica, 1795-1796



The Subjugation of Dominica and Trinidad, 1791-1814



Slave Rebellions and Emancipation, 1816-1832



Creolization and Resistance



Bussa's Rebellion: Barbados, 1816



The Demerara Revolt, 1823



The Baptist War: The Jamaican Rebellion of 1831-1832


Epilogue


Chronology of Resistance, 1638-1837


Glossary


Notes


Credits and Sources for Photos


Index