From the Editor's Note:
The West Indies, the earliest and one of the most important prizes of Europe's New World and the first to experience the full impact of the black diaspora from Africa, were also the most enduringly colonized territories in the history of the Western Hemisphere. Here more than anywhere else masters and slaves constituted the basic ingredients of the social order; here more than anywhere else class and status were based on distinction of color and race. Yet out of that past, here more than anywhere else societies with black majorities have emerged as self governing, multiracial states.
Contents:
I. SLAVES, MASTERS, AND FREEDMEN
1. C. L. R. James "The Slaves" (1938)
2. Orlando Patterson "The Socialization and Personality Structure of the Slave" (1967)
3. John G. Stedman "A Planter's Day" (1806)
4. Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery "Whites in a Slave Society" (1797)
5. Edward Long "Freed Blacks and Mulattos" (1754)
6. C.L.R. James "The Free Colored in a Slave Society" (1938)
7. Douglas Hall "Absentee-Proprietorship in the British West Indies, to about 1850" (1964)
8. William G. Sewell "The Ordeal of Free Labor in the British West Indies" (1861)
9. James Anthony Froude "The Perils of Black Supremacy" (1888)
10. J. J. Thomas "Froudacity Refuted" (1889)
II THE NATURE OF THE SOCIAL ORDER
11. M. G. Smith "The Plural Framework of Jamaican Society" (1961)
12. David Lowenthal "The Range and Variation of Caribbean Societies" (1960)
13. Lloyd Braithwaite "Stratification in Trinidad" (1953)
14. Edith Kovats-Beaudoux "A Dominant Minority: The White Creoles of Martinique" (1969)
15. Daniel J. Crowley "Cultural Assimilation in a Multiracial Society" (1960)
16. Morton Klass "East and West Indian: Cultural Complexity in Trinidad" (1960)
17. Leo A. Despres "Cultural Pluralism and Nationalist Politics in British Guiana" (1956)
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