Verene Shepherd

This book is the first attempt to pull together the scattered material on women from the secondary sources into one place with the aim of providing students, teachers and the general reader with easily accessible information on Caribbean women of diverse ethnic origins. Women in Caribbean History, as an introductory text, responds to the need to project a more positive image of Caribbean women and to counter the stereotypes and negative images presented by early colonisers and settlers and the writings of European planters, missionaries and travellers to the Caribbean. There are over 80 maps, photographs and tables illustrating the activities of Caribbean women from pre-Columbian times to the contemporary period.… (meer)

Written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Liberties Lost is an essential book for students engaged in following courses on the history of the Caribbean. It will also be of interest to general readers seeking information on the history of the region. Starting with indigenous societies, Liberties Lost covers Europe's Caribbean project, European settlement and rivalry, the Transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans; sugar and slavery; African culture and community life; revolt and resistance and, finally, Caribbean emancipation.… (meer)

Very good collection of articles for undergrads and above. Also very good for teachers of Caribbean history. Divided into several useful sections pertaining to different aspects of Caribbean societies under slavery beginning with revisionist discourses on Caribbean indigenes. The section offering 4 slave narratives including messages from Toussaint L'Ouverture, could have benefited from 1 or 2 articles discussing uses and disadvantages of slave narratives. However, this book (like all readers) presents the student with an opportunity to read original material from authors they might not otherwise have read.… (meer)