The Young Colonials

Carl C. Campbell is Professor of History on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies. He was a foundation member of this university's History Department in Trinidad and has taught on the Jamaica campus for twenty-two years. He has published several articles on the social history of nineteenth and twentieth century Jamaica and Trinidad, and is author of Colony and Nation: A Short History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago (1992), Cedulants and Capitulants: The Politics of the Coloured Opposition in the Slave Society of Trinidad (1992) and The Young Colonials: A Social History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago 1834-1939 (1996).

He is currently editor of the Jamaica Historical Review and is past president of the Jamaican Historical Society and the Association of Caribbean Historians.