Brian L. Moore is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies, Colgate University, and he has taught at universities in Jamaica and Guyana. He is the award-winning author or editor of more than eight scholarly books, several chapters in edited books, and articles in the Journal of Caribbean History, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Boletin de Estudios Lationamerican y del Caribe, Bulletin of Eastern Caribbean Affairs, Immigrants and Minorities, Guyana Historical Journal, and Jamaica Historical Review. In addition to his distinguished teaching and publishing career, he has served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guyana, and was a diplomatic representative to the United Nations General Assembly and Great Britain.
B.W. Higman is Emeritus Professor of History, University of the West Indies, and Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University. He is the author of eleven books on Caribbean history, archaeology and geography, including the award-winning publications Slave Population and Economy in Jamaica, 1807–1834; Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834; Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912; Writing West Indian Histories; Plantation Jamaica, 1750–1850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy; and Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture. His most recent books are A Concise History of the Caribbean and How Food Made History.
Carl Campbell is
Professor of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Among his
many publications are The Young
Colonials: A Social History of Education in Trinidad and Tobago, 1834–1919
and Endless Education: Main Currents in
the Educational System of Modern Trinidad and Tobago, 1939–1986.
Patrick Bryan is
Professor of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. His
publications include The Jamaican People,
1880–1902 and Philanthropy and Social
Welfare in Jamaica.
