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FACULTY OF ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

HST 2I4 - A SURVEY OF CARIBBEAN HISTORY

LEYEL: YEAR II FIRST SEMESTER
4 CREDITS

GENERAL \ryORKS
BECKLES, H. & SI{EPHERD, V. (eds.) Caribbean Slave Society and Economy.
London: Currey, l99l .

Arnenca- 1492-1973. New York. Macmillan, 1981. F1410 C7

EMMER" Pieter C. (ed.). General History of the Caribbean. Vol. II: New Societies: The
Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century. London: Unesco Publishing/lMacmillan
Education, 1999.
KMGHT, Franklin. The Caribbean: Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1978.
LEWIS, G.K. The Growth of the Modern West Indies. Londor MacGibboa,1968.
Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of
Caribbean Society in its Ideological Aspects. 1492-1900. The John Hopkins University
Press,1983.
MENEZES, M.N. How to do Better Research. Georgetown: Demerara Publishers, 1990.
PITMANS, W.F. The Development of the British West Indies. London: Frank Cass,
t970.
WILLIAMS, Eric. British Historians and the West Indies. Port of Spain: P.N.M. Pub.
Co., 1964.
From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean. 1492-1961.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1970.
Capitalism and Slavery. London. Andre Deutsch, 1964.

PRE-COLUMBIAN SOCIETIES
BASSO, E.B. (ed.) Caribbean-speakins Indians: Culture Society and Language. Tucson:
University, 1977.
FARABEE, W.C. The Central Arawaks. Philadelphia,l9TS.
GROSS, D. Peoples and Cultures of Native South America. New York: Doubleday,
1973.
HANKE, L.V. The First Social Experiments in America: A Study of the Development of
Spanish Indian Policy in the Sixteenth century. Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1964.F1411
H35
The Spanish Strusgle for Justice in the Conquest of America. Boston:
L,ittlc'. Brown and Co., 1965.Fl4ll}f37
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Indians of South America. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969
The New Laws for the Government of the Indies and the Preservation of the Indians,
1542-1543. New York: Ams Press, T971. F1411 Spa
SIMPSON, L.B. The Encomienda in New Spain. Berkeley: University of Califcrria
Press, 1966.F1411 Sim
STEWARD, J. (ed.) Handbook of South America Indians. Vol 4. F22?9 575
FRIEDE, Juaa. Bartholome de Las Casas in History. De Kalb, Ill.. Northern Illinois
Univ. P., 1971. El25 C4826
MACNUTT, Francis A. Bartholome de Las Casas.El25 C4Macn

EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AND COLONISATION

BO)G& C.R. Four Centuries of Portuguese Expansion- 1415-1825. Johannesburg:
Witwatersand University Press, 1 972.
HALE, J.R. Renaissance Exploration. London: Thanet Press, 1968.
HARING, C.H. The Spanish Empire in America. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World,
1963.
IIARLOW, V.T. Colonizing Expeditions to the West Indies to the West Indies and
Guiana^ 1623-1667 . Nandelinlliechenstein: Tlaus Reprint Ltd., 1967 . F1621I*
MEANS, Phdip. The Spanisk Main: Focus of Envy. New York: Gordian Press, 1965.
F2t6t Ms3.
MORRISON, S.E. The Caribbean as Columbus Saw it. Boston: Little and Brown, 1964.
NEWTON, A.P. The European Nations in the West Indies. London: A & C Black, 1966.
F1621 N46
NOWELL, C.E. The Great Discoveries and the First Colonial Empire. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1954.
PARRY, J. The Age ofReconnaissance. London. Weidenfeld and Ncholsorq 1966.
The Discovery of South America. London: P. Elelq 1979.
Europe and the Wide \fforld. London: Hutchinson,1965. fV61 P3
The Spanish Seaborne Empire. London: Hutchinson,lg7t. Fl4l0 P3
RICHARDSON, P. The Expansion of Europe. 1400-1600. London: Longmans, 1966.
VAN SERTIMA Ivan. The African Presence in Ancient America: They Came before
Columbus. New York: Random House, 1976.E 109 A35 V36

THE EUROPEAN CHALLENGE TO SPANISH MONOPOLY IN THE CARIBBEAN

ANDREVfS, K.R. {ed.) The Last Voyage ofDrake and Hawkins. London: Cambridge
University Press, I 974.
The Spanish Caribbean Trade aad Plunder. 1530-1630. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1928.
The Freeport System in the British West Indies: A Study in
Commercial Policy. 1766-1822. London. Longmans, green and Company,7953.
BO)(E& C.R. The Dutch Seaborne Empke, 1600-1800. London: Hutchinsoq 1966
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1624-1690. New York: Oford University, 1972.

CROUSE, M.M. French Pioneers in the West Indies- 1665-1713. London: Frank Cass,
t966.
EXQUEMELIN, K.C. The Buccaneers of America. New York: Dover, 1967.
COSinfCeu C.C. TheDutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast. 1580-1680.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 197 1.
EMMER, pieter C tea I General History of the Caribbean.Vol. II: New Societies: The
Caribbean in the Long Sixteenth Century. London: Unescq Publishing/Nlacmillan
Education, 1999.
MEANS, irf,ifp. The Spanish Main: Focus of Envy. New York: Gordian Press, 1965.

T}IE PLANTATION SYSTEM AND SLAVERY

@V. caribbean Slave Society and Economy. London: currey,
1993. HT1071C37
BECKLES, H.
London: Zed Books, 1989. HT1105 B3 B44

Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.

BUSH, Barbara. Siave trYomen in Caribbeaa Society- 1650-1838. Kingston: Heinemann,
Pub., 1990. HT1071 B87
CaVfpngff, M. The Dynamics of Change in a Slave Society. Rutherford Farleigh
Dickensorg 1978.
COIIEN, D.W. & Green, J.P. (eds.). Neither Slave nor Free: The Freedmen of African
Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World. Baltimore. The John Hopkins
University Press, 1973.
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CRATON, Michael. Empkg Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean. Kingston:
Randle Publishers, 1997.
A Jamaican Plantation. Toronto: University of Toroato Press, 1970.

. Madison' Univ' of Wisconsin Press' 1969'

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GRAHAM, M. & KNIGE{TS, F. (eds.). Alkica and the Caribbean: The Legacy of a Link'
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1979.
POPE-IIENNESSEY, Iames. Sins of the Fathers: A Study ofthe Atlantic Slave Traders.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
HIGMAN, B. Slave Populations of the British Caribbearl 1807-1834. Baltimore: John
Hopkins University Press, 1984.
XtnfN, Herbert S. Th* Middl" Pur*ug". Princeton:, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1978.

KNIGHT, Franklin (ed.). General History of the Caribbean. Vol. IIL The Slave Societies
of the Caribbean. London: Unesco Publishingffacmillan Education, 1997'
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MARSHALL, Bernard. Slavery and the Plantation System in the British Windward
Islands. Mona: U.W.I., 1971.
PARES, R.A. West Indian Fortune. Hamden: Anchor Books, 1950.
War and Trade in the West Indies. Londoa: F. Cass, 1963.F1621P32

PATTERSON, H. 0. The Sociology of Slavery. New Jersey. Farleigh Dickinson Press,

1969.HT1096P3
RODNEY, Walter. A History of the Upper Guinea Coast. 1545-1800. Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1970.DT477 F.:6a
Portuguese Attempt at Monopoly on the Upper Guinea Coast. 1580-
1650. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1965.
TURNE& Mary. Slaves and Missionaries. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.
WILLIAMS, Eric. From Columbus to Castro. The History of the Caribbean- 1492-1961.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1970. F1621 W5
Capitalism and Slavery. London: Andre Deutsctq 1964.HC254.5
w54.

\ryOMEN IN THE CARIBBEAN

BECKLES, Hilary. Inside Bussa's Rebellion. St. Michael: Barbados Museum and
Historical Society, 1984.
BECKLES, Hilary. Natural Rebels: A Social History of E;rslaved Black Women in
Barbados. London: Zed Books, 1989. HTI 105 B3 844.
Centering Woman. Kirgston: Ian Randle ?ub., 1999.
BUSH, Barbara. Slave Women in Caribbean Society. 1650-1838. Kingston: Heinemann
Pub., 1990.
Defiance or Submission: the Role of the Slave Woman ia Slave
Resistance in the British Caribbean. I.ondon: Frank Cass, 1982. HTl091 888.
CRATON, Michael. 'Changing Patterns of Slave Families in the British West Indies" in
Caribbean Slave Economy and Society
HIGMAN, Barry. "Household Structure and Fertility on Jamaican Slave Plantations" in
Caribbean Slave Economy and Society.
MORISSEY, Marietta. "lffomen's Work, Family Formation and Reproduction among
Caribbean Slaves" in Caribbean Slave Econom), and Society.
MATHURIN, L. The Rebel Woman in the British West Indies. Kingston: Institute of
Jamaica for the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica. HT1091 M38.
SI{EP}IERD, Verene (ed.) Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical
Perspective. HQI 501 E54.
. Kiagston: Ian Randle
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RESISTANCE AND REVOLTS

CRATON, Michael. Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British \ffest Indies.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. HTlOgl C73
Empire. Enslavement and Freedom in the Caribbean. Kingston: Ian
Randle Publishers, 1997.
FONER" Laura& GENOVESE, E. (ed.). Slavery in the New World. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.. Prentice-Hall, 7969. E44l F 65
HALL. G.M. Social Control in Slave Plaatation Sccieties: A Comparison of St.
Domingue and Cuba. Baltimore, 1973. HT1081 H34
HART, Richard. Black Jamaicans Struggle against Slavery. London: Community
Education Trust, 1979. F1896B55 }f37
Slaves who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Bondage, Vol. I.
Mona: U.W.I., 1980. HT 1091 H37
HARTSINCK, J.J. The Story of the Slave Rebellion in Berbice. 1763. Amsterdam,1770.
DE GROOT, Silvia. '? Comparisoa between the History of Maroon Communities in
Surinam and Jamaica." in Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways. Resistaace and
Marronage in Africa and the New World.
JAMES, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San )ominga
Revolution. London. Allison & Busby, 1980.
MATHURIN, L. The Rebel Women in the British West Indies. Kingstoa: Institute of
Jamaica, 1975.
MCGOWAN, Winston. The Demerara Slave Revolt- 1823. Georgetown. The Free Press,
1998.
OTT, T.O. F. The Haitian Revolution. New Havec Yale University Press, 1966.F1923
o87.
PRICE, R. Maroon Societies. Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. New York:
Anchor Books, 1973.
Guiaaa Maroons. Baltimore: John Hopkins University, 1 976.
THOMPSON, Alvin. Guiana Maroons: Some Aspects of Slave Desertion in G::iana,
1750-1814. Georgetown: The Free Press, 1998.
Some Aspects of Slave Desertion in Guiana- 1750-1814. Cave Hill:
ISER" 1976.
The Berbice Slave Revolt- 1763. Georgetown: The Free press,
1998.

ABOLITION AND EMANCIPATION

BIJRN, W.L. Emancipation and Apprenticeship in the British West Indies. London:
Johnson Reprint, 1937.
CRATON, Michael. Empire. Enslavement and {reedom in the Caribbean. Kingston: Ian
Randle Publishers, 1997.
DAVY, J. The West Indies before ald since Slave Emancipation. London: Frank Cass,
1971.
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DRESCFIER, S. Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. Pittsburg: University

of Pittsburg, 1977 .
FILLER" L. The Crusade against Slavery 1830-1860. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
GREEN, W.A. British Slave Emancip*h. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
HOLT, Thomas. The Problem of Freedom. Kingston: Ian Randle,1992.
MATHIESON, W.L. British Slavery and its Abolition. 1823-1849. London: Octagon,
1967. HTl091 M32.
British Slave Emancipation, 1838-1849. New York Octagon,1967.
MELLO& G.R. British Imperial Trusteeship. 1783-1850. London, 1951.
NETTLEFORD, Rex. (ed.). Apprenticeship and Emancipation. Mona: U.W.I., 19-
PORTER" D. The Abolition ofthe Slave Trade in England. 1784-1807. New York:
Archon Books, 1970.
RAGATZ, L.J. The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbearl 1763-1833. New
York: Octagon, 1963. HC157 88 R3
\ryALVIN, J. (ed.). Slavery and British Society. 1776-1846. London: Macmillan, 1982.
WILLIAMS, E. Capitalism and Slavery. London: Andre Deutsch, 1964.
WYNDHAIvI, H.A. The Atlaatic and Emancipatica. London: Oxford University Press,
1957