General History of the Caribbean Volume III: The slave societies of
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 plant
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General History of the Caribbean Titles in the series Volume I Autochthonous Societies Volume II
New Societies: The Caribbean in the 'Long' Sixteenth Century Volume III The Slave Societies of the Caribbean
Volume IV The Long Nineteenth Century: Nineteenth-Century Transfonnations Volume V The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century Volume VI Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean
General History of the Caribbean Volume III The slave societies of the Caribbean
Editor: Franklin W Knight
palgrave macmillan
UNESCO Publishing
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CONTENTS
Preface
vi
Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO
Description of the Project
Sir Roy Augier
ix
List of Contributors
. xii
List of Tables Introduction 1
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9 10
xiv
Franklin W. Knight .
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The slave trade, Mrican slavers and the demography of the Caribbean to 1750 Colin A. Palmer .
9
The demographic structure of the Caribbean slave societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Stanley 1. Engerman and B. W. Higman .
45
The slave economies of the Caribbean: Structure, performance, evolution and Significance David Eltis .
105
The social structure of the slave societies in the Caribbean GadHeuman.
138
Maroon communities in the
