A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844

HILARY McD. BECKLES is Professor of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies. His many publications include Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide; A Nation Imagined: The First West Indies Test Tour, 1928; and Freedoms Won: Emancipation, Identity and Nationhood in the Caribbean.

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.