The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion

List of Maps and Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Europe and Indigenous Peoples.

1. Columbus Was a Cannibal: Myth and the First Encounter
William F. Keegan

2. Visions of Cannibals: Distant Islands and Distant Lands in Taino World Image
Louis Allaire

3. After the Encounter: Disease and Demographics in the Lesser Antilles
Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild C. Ornelas

Part Two. War and Imperial Rivalries.

4. The Black Caribs of St. Vincent: A Reevaluation
Michael Craton

5. English Settlement in the Lesser Antilles during War and Peace, 1603–1660
John C. Appleby

6. Redcoats and Slaves in the British Caribbean
Andrew O’Shaughnessy

7. Crisscrossing Empires: Ships, Sailors, and Resistance in the Lesser Antilles in the Eighteenth Century
Julius S. Scott

Part Three. Migration, Trade, and the Transatlantic Economy.

8. Europe, the Lesser Antilles, and Economic Expansion, 1600–1800
Stanley L. Engerman

9. Opportunity and Mobility in Early Barbados
Alison F. Games

10. The British Transatlantic Slave Trade before 1714: Annual Estimates of Volume and Direction
David Eltis

11. “Jesus Christ Was Good, but Trade Was Better”: An Overview of the Transit Trade of the Dutch Antilles, 1634–1795
P. C. Emmer

12. Citizens of St. Eustatius, 1781: A Historical and Archaeological Study
Norman F. Barka

Part Four. Slavery.

13. Ameliorating Slavery: The Leeward Islands Slave Act of 1798
David Barry Gaspar

14. Free Coloreds and Slaves in Revolutionary Guadeloupe: Politics and Political Consciousness
Anne Pérotin-Dumon

15. The Slaves and Free Coloreds of Martinique during the Age of the French and Haitian Revolutions: Three Moments of Resistance
David Geggus

Part Five. Abolition and Emancipation.

16. Beyond and Below the Merivale Paradigm: Dominica’s First 100 Days of Freedom
Michel-Rolph Trouillot

17. “Birth-Pangs of a New Order”: Special Magistrate John Anderson and the Apprenticeship in St. Vincent
Roderick A. McDonald

18. The Long Good-bye: Dutch Capitalism and Antislavery in Comparative Perspective
Seymour Drescher

Contributors

Index