Written in plain language, this history is accessible to general readers and students, yet detailed enough for scholars. It describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbado
Topics covered in Freedoms Won include: aftermath of emancipation; African-Caribbean peasantry; Asian arrival in the Caribbean; social and political experiences of the working classes in the immediate
Liberties Lost, like its companion volume, Freedoms Won, has been written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Professor Hilary Beckles and Professor Verene Shepherd. The book covers the hist