These books provide very good and readable overviews of the themes and events we are going to explore on the module:<\/p>\n
Heuman, G.\u00a0The Caribbean: A Brief History\u00a0<\/em>(2014), especially chapters 2 to 11.<\/p>\n Hochschild, A. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery<\/em> (2006).<\/p>\n Walvin, J. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery<\/em> (1993).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Take a look at the relevant chapters of these general histories of the Caribbean to improve your understanding of the broad contexts we’re going to be looking at:<\/p>\n Gibson, C.\u00a0Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean\u00a0<\/em>(2014), chapters 5 to 8.<\/p>\n Higman, B.W.\u00a0A Concise History of the Caribbean<\/em> (2011), chapters 4 &\u00a05.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are important items, which we will be using once the module gets underway:<\/p>\n Blackburn, R. The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery<\/em> (London: Verso, 1988).<\/p>\n Brown, C. Moral Capital: The Roots of British Abolitionism<\/em> (2006).<\/p>\n Burnard, T. Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and his Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n Craton, M. \u2018Slavery and Slave Society in the British Caribbean\u2019. In Heuman and Walvin (eds) The Slavery Reader<\/em> (2003).<\/p>\n Davis, D. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1776-1823<\/em> (1976).<\/p>\n Petley, C. \u2018New Perspectives on Slavery and Emancipation in the British Caribbean\u2019, The Historical Journal<\/em> 54\/3 (2011).<\/p>\n Sheridan, R. \u2018The Formation of Caribbean Plantation Society, 1689-1748\u2019, in P. Marshall (ed), Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century<\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n Ward, J. R. \u2018The British West Indies in the Age of Abolition, 1748-1815\u2019, in P. Marshall (ed), Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century<\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These books provide very good and readable overviews of the themes and events we are going to explore on the module: Heuman, G.\u00a0The Caribbean: A Brief History\u00a0(2014), especially chapters 2 to 11. Hochschild, A. Bury the Chains: The British Struggle … Continue reading