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This is a completely revised and expanded version of Caribbean Slave Society and Economy which has become a standard text in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic.This new volume is made up of 17 sections comprising more than 70 articles which makes it the most comprehensive text of its kind available anywhere. Each of the 17 sections has a short introduction which provides the context for the general theme and for the essays which follow..
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The West Indies Cricket Team, formed in 1884, made its first overseas tour two years later to Canada and the United States. The tourists played thirteen matches during August and September; they won six, lost five and two were drawn. The first match was played against the Montreal Cricket Club, 16-17 August 1886. It ended in a draw after which the West Indians moved on to Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton.They arrived in the United States to play several matches in Philadelphia where the cricket culture was well established. Local clubs proved too strong an opposition for the tourists. The press was encouraging but made it clear that the islanders were out of their depth. It was an important tour for the first West Indians cricketers. It was the first international step in an apprenticeship that lasted decades. The English decided, finally, to host the West Indians in 1900. This book speaks to the Canadian and American beginning of the West Indian cricket culture that was to emerge a century later as the most powerful performance force the game had ever seen..
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This text contains a collection of nearly 60 articles, covering major events of the Caribbean struggle f or freedom from the Emancipation to the present, from Trouss ant''s Haiti to the more recent revolutions in Cuba, Granada & the Dominican Republic. '.
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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 post-slavery period; the Caribbean economy; US intervention and imperialist tendencies from the 18th century; the Labour Movement in the Caribbean in the 20th century; the social life and culture of the Caribbean people and social protest; decolonisation and nationhood..
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This book sets out for the general reader and student alike the peculiar features of the post emancipation condition of the formerly enslaved community in Barbados. It was here on this small island of 166 square miles that tens of thousands of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean first experienced the full brutality of the sugar plantation. It was here also, in this incubator of chattel slavery, that Africans received the worst possible emancipation deal the Caribbean, if not the Americas. Barbados, the first black majority slave plantation society in the New World, remained structurally unaltered by the powerful source for change that was unleashed on August 1st 1838 – emancipation day. Here, an unrelenting landless freedom was imposed upon the blacks whose conditions of work and life remained largely unchanged for a century on plantations that produced more sugar with less labour for below subsistence wages.

The formerly enslaved community, persisted with its protest and rebellion; Wage protest in the sugar fields intermingled with the civil rights agitation on the assembly floor, finally led to open warfare in the form of the 1876 Rebellion.

Against this background of 19th century popular protests and workers’ agitation, the modern labour movement, the anticolonial campaign, and agitation for democratic governance came to maturity by the 1920s. The final breach in the walls of the structures of white supremacy was achieved in 1937 when the workers took to the streets and field with arms under the ideological leadership of the charismatic Garveyite organizers, Clement Payne. It had taken a full century of struggle after emancipation to see, even at a distance, the freedom that was promised by the abolition of slavery legislation..
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