Liberties Lost - Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave Systems - Hilary McD Beckles - Paperback - english - 9780521435444

Summary: Liberties Lost, like its companion volume, Freedoms Won, has been written by two of the Caribbean's leading historians, Professor Hilary Beckles and Professor Verene Shepherd. The book covers the history syllabus offered by the Caribbean Examinations Council, including the new Caribbean Advanced Proficiency syllabus in Caribbean/Atlantic history. It is of value to students and teachers engaged in the Cambridge A-Level syllabus on the post-emancipation history of the Caribbean, to college/university students participating in foundation courses in Caribbean history, as well as to the general reader seeking information on the history of the region. Topics covered in Liberties Lost include indigenous societies, Europe's Caribbean project; European settlement and rivalry; the Transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans; sugar and slavery; African culture and community life; revolt and resistance; and finally, Caribbean emancipation. Author : Hilary McD Beckles, Verene A. Shepherd Binding : Paperback BISAC Subject : EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities Book Type : NON-FICTION Dewey : 372 Language : English Pages : 240 Publication Date : 01/31/2005 Table of Contents Introduction vi Acknowledgements viii The indigenous Caribbean people 1 (27) The culture of indigenous Caribbean people 2 (3) The Ciboney 5 (1) The Taino 5 (10) The Kalinago 15 (4) Continental cousins: Maya, Aztec and Inca 19 (9) The European-Caribbean Project 28 (8) The first `American' journeys before Columbus 29 (1) Asia and the Crusades 29 (3) The Portuguese in West Africa 32 (1) Colonising the islands in the East Atlantic 33 (1) The Columbus project 33 (3) Spanish settlement and indigenous resistance 36 (15) Lost in the Caribbean 37 (2) Spanish colonial policy and settlement patterns 39 (1) The oppression and enslavement of the Taino 40 (3) Taino resistance 43 (1) Spanish political and economic systems in the Caribbean 44 (7) Other European settlement and rivalry 51 (18) The challenge to Spanish monopoly by other European nations 52 (8) The ways in which European nations challenged the Spanish monopoly 60 (3) The Spanish counter-attack 63 (1) The resistance of the Kalinago in the Eastern Caribbean 63 (6) Europe and the spread of chattel slavery in Africa 69 (13) Classical Africa in comparison with Europe 70 (1) Early African development: African scientific and technological developments 71 (3) The main West African states in the mid-15th Century: Ghana, Mali and Songhai 74 (1) The decline of White slavery 75 (1) The rise of slavery in Africa 76 (3) The impact of the transatlantic human trade on Africa 79 (3) The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans 82 (17) The commercial and financial organisation of the trade in humans 83 (1) Prices and profits in the trade 84 (4) The debate over the size of the trade and the main participants 88 (1) The Middle Passage and the mortality rate of Africans 89 (5) Resistance by Africans to the transatlantic human trade 94 (2) The impact of the trade on Africa, Europe and the Americas 96 (3) The Caribbean economy and enslavement 99 (22) The sugar revolution 100 (1) The sugar industry grows 100 (1) White indentured servants 101 (1) The planters clamp down 101 (1) Servant resistance 101 (1) Enslaved Africans and production 102 (9) Control of Africans 111 (10) Making and marketing sugar 121 (16) Making sugar 122 (11) Marketing sugar 133 (4) African culture and community life 137 (17) The transfer of culture 138 (1) Ethnicity 138 (1) Rites and rituals 139 (2) Dances, games and other celebrations 141 (8) Rebuilding family 149 (5) Surviving enslavement: wealth and health factors 154 (12) The ways in which the enslaved pursued an economic life of their own 155 (8) The ways in which the enslaved survived slavery: death and disease 163 (3) Revolt and marronage 166 (14) African anti-slavery politics 167 (3) One type and method of resistance: marronage 170 (10) Armed revolt 180 (25) The Berbice Revolution, 1763 181 (2) The Haitian Revolution, 1791 183 (7) The 1816 emancipation war in Barbados 190 (5) Emancipation war in Jamaica, 1831/32 195 (6) Women and resistance 201 (4) Caribbean emancipations 205 (19) The background to emancipation 206 (1) The abolition of the trade in humans 206 (3) The system of ameliorating slavery 209 (1) Emancipation in Haiti and its impact on the slave systems of the wider Caribbean 210 (1) Emancipation in English colonies 211 (3) Emancipation in French colonies 214 (2) Emancipation in Danish and Dutch colonies 216 (3) Emancipation in the Spanish colonies 219 (2) Comparisons: emancipation in the USA 221 (3) Additional Sources for Teachers 224 (6) Glossary 230 (4) Index 234