Hilary McD. Beckles is Professor
of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, the University of the West
Indies. His many publications include The
First Black Slave Society: Britain’s “Barbarity Time” in Barbados, 1636–1876;
Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for
Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide; A
History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market and
Economy; Natural Rebels: A Social
History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados, 1636–1834; and Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean
Slave Societies.
Verene
A. Shepherd is a social historian and director of the
Centre for Reparation Research, the University of the West Indies. Her many
publications include Caribbean Slavery in
the Atlantic World (co-edited with Hilary McD. Beckles) and Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage
from India to the Caribbean.