Table of Contents

The slave trade, African slaves and the demography of the Caribbean to 1750, Colin A. Palmer; the demographic structure of the Caribbean slave societies in the 18th and 19th centuries, Stanley L. Engerman and B.W. Higman; the slave economies of the Caribbean - structure, performance, evolution and structure, David Eltis; the social structure of the slave societies in the Caribbean, Gad Heuman; maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean, Silvia W. de Groot et al; social and political control in slave society, Hiliary Beckles; forms of resistance to slavery, Michael Craton; pluralism, creolization and culture, Franklin W. Knight; religious beliefs, Mary Turner; the disintegration of the Caribbean slave systems 1789-1886, Franklin W. Knight.