Slave Populations of the British Caribbean 1807-1834
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Product Description
Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984 (see HLAS 48:2517b). Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various
About the Author
B.W. Higman is Emeritus Professor of History, University of the West Indies, and Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University. He is the author of eleven books on Caribbean history, archaeology and geography, including the award-winning publications
Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834;
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834; Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries;
Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912;
Writing West Indian Histories;
Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy; and
Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. His most recent books are
A Concise History of the Caribbean and
How Food Made History.
