Because the institution of slavery has exerted such momentous force in shaping the socioeconomic and political history of the Caribbean, much of the region's historical writing has focused on slavery.
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
