The lesser Antilles in the age of european expansion /
edited by Robert L. Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 1996
- xii, 383 p. / 23 cm.
Europe and indigenous peoples, 15. -- Columbus was a cannibal : myth and the first encounters, 17. -- Visions of cannibals : distant island and distant lands in taino world image, 33. -- After the encounter : disease and demographics in the Lesser Antilles, 50. -- War and imperial rivaluation, 69. -- The black caribs of St. Vincent : a reevaluation, 71. -- English settlment in the Lesser Antilles during war and peace, 1603-1660, 86. -- Redcoats and slaves in the British Caribbean, 105. -- Crisscrossing empires : ships, sailors, and resistance in the Lesser. -- Antilles in the eighteenth century, 128. -- Migration, trade, and the transatlantic economy, 145. -- Europe, the Lesser Antilles, and economic expansion, 1600-1800, 147. -- Opportynity and mobility in Early Barbados, 165. -- The British Transatlantic Slave trade before 1714 : Anual estimates of volume and direction, 182. -- Jesus Christ Was Good, but Trade Was Better" : An overview of the Transit Trade of the Dutch Antilles, 1634-1795, 206. -- Citizens of St. Eustatius, 1781 : a historical and archelogical study, 223. -- Slavery, 239. -- Ameliorating slavery : the Leeward Island Slave Act of 1798, 241. -- Free Colored and Slaves in Revolutionary Guadeloupe : politics and political consciousness, 259. -- The Slaves and Free Coloreds of Martinique during the age of the french and hatian revolutions : three moments of resitance, 280. -- Abolition and emencipation, 301. -- Beyond and below the merivale paradigm : Dominicaa's first 100 days of freedom, 302. -- Birth - pangs of a New Order" : special magistrate John Anderson and the apprenticeship in St. Vincent, 324. -- The long good - bye : duch capitalism and antislavery in comparative perspective, 345