History for CSEC® Examinations Book 2: Emancipation to Emigration
US$ 18.08
The publisher has enabled DRM protection, which means that you need to use the BookFusion iOS, Android or Web app to read this eBook. This eBook cannot be used outside of the BookFusion platform.
Description
Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
9780230464926
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Maps
Preface to the Third Edition
1 European Rivalry in the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
Relative positions of the European powers in the Caribbean
Naval power
Economic aims of the powers
The effects of the eighteenth-century wars on the West Indies
The War of Spanish Succession
The War of Jenkins' Ear
The War of Austrian Succession
The Seven Years' War
The effects of the Seven Years' War
The War of American Independence
The effects of the War of American Independence
The United States and the Caribbean in the eighteenth century
The position in 1783
Factors favouring an aggressive policy
Factors favouring a peaceful policy
Becoming a Caribbean power
'Manifest Destiny'
Conclusion
2 The Haitian Revolution
The French Revolution
The effect of the Revolution in the French Caribbean
The effect of the Revolution in St Domingue
The effect on the white population
The effect on the coloured population
The effect on the slave population
The coloured revolt of 1790
The slave rising around Cap Français in 1791
The Jacobin Commission
British Intervention in St Domingue
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint's rise to power
Toussaint's domination of St Domingue
Toussaint's Constitution
Napoleon's attitude to Toussaint
The attempted 'pacification' of St Domingue
Leclerc's expedition to St Domingue
Christophe and Dessalines take over
Haitian independence
The price of independence
Loss of life
Political chaos
Economic ruin
The boost to other sugar producers
Effects of the Haitian Revolution on other countries
3 Europe and the United States in the Caribbean, 1783–1823
The French Revolutionary Wars
Victor Hugues and Julien Fédon
The Black Carib revolt in St Vincent
Seizure of the Dutch, Danish and Swedish colonies
The widening of the war in the Caribbean
The West India Regiments
The Napoleonic Wars
The economic effects of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
The United States and the Caribbean
Spanish American independence
The Monroe Doctrine
The United States and Cuba
4 The Control and Treatment of Slaves
Slavery and the law
Slave laws and codes in the British Caribbean
The origin of the slave codes
The features of the slave codes
Punishments
Manumission
Marriage and divorce
Religion
Education
Forces of law and order
The Militia
British troops
Constables
Other forms of slave control
Pro-slavery alliances
Amelioration
The Huggins and Hodge cases
Slave codes in the non-British Caribbean
The Spanish Code
The French Code
The Dutch and Danish Codes
Conclusion
5 Resistance and Revolt
Response to slavery
Passive resistance
Amerindian influence on resistance
Resistance through African culture
Active resistance
Marronage
The Maroons in Jamaica
The First Maroon War
The Second Maroon War
The Bush Negroes of Surinam
Slave rebellions
The 1763 rebellion in Berbice
The spread of the rebellion
The arrival of troops
The death of Kofi
A National Hero
The late slave rebellions in the British West Indies
The 1816 revolt in Barbados
The 1823 revolt in Demerara
The 1831 revolt in Jamaica, the 'Western Liberation Uprising'
Conclusion
6 Slavery Challenged
Attitudes towards slavery
Pre-eighteenth-century attitudes
Acquisition and justification
Racial attitudes
Eighteenth-century attitudes
Arguments used to condone slavery
Arguments used to condemn slavery
The British anti-slavery movement
The Quakers
The Clapham Sect, or 'The Saints'
Industrialists
The campaign for the abolition of the slave trade
The campaign outside Parliament
The campaign in Parliament
The West India Interest
The abolition of the slave trade
Difficulties in enforcing the abolition of the slave trade
Better days for the free coloureds
7 The Emancipation of Slaves
Amelioration
The Registration of Slaves
The Amelioration Bill
The failure of amelioration
Missionaries in the British West Indies
Nonconformist missions
The persecution of missionaries
Other obstacles faced by the missionaries
Conclusion
The emancipation of slaves
Immediate causes
The Emancipation Act, 1833
Compensation
The apprenticeship system
Reasons for apprenticeship
Apprenticeship at work
Special magistrates
The end of apprenticeship
Abolition and emancipation in the non-British Caribbean
The French islands
The Spanish islands
The Dutch colonies
The Swedish and Danish islands
Conclusion
8 Post-Emancipation Adjustments
The immediate post-emancipation period
The new labouring class in 1838
The attitude of the labourers
The attitude of the planters
The effect on sugar production
Wages and fringe benefits
Sugar cultivation by independent blacks
The 'free village' movement
Free villages in Jamaica
Free villages in other colonies
The labour situation after emancipation
9 Immigrant Labour
Official reaction to immigration
Immigration schemes
European labour
Madeirans and Maltese
Free African immigration
Chinese immigration
Indian immigration
The contracts
Organisation of Asian immigration schemes
'The New Slavery'
Immigration to non-British colonies
The Dutch colonies
The French colonies
Cuba
The effects of immigration in the British colonies
On the sugar industry
On culture and society
10 Problems of the Caribbean Sugar Industry
British West Indian sugar before 1846
Sugar prices
The Sugar Equalisation Act, 1846
Free trade
Results of the 1846 Act
Surviving the crisis
The Encumbered Estates Act, 1854
Foreign competition
Cuba
The natural advantages of Cuba
The man-made advantages of Cuba
The sugar revolution in Cuba
The Dominican Republic
Louisiana and Brazil
European beet sugar
The backwardness of the British West Indian sugar industry
Causes
The Royal Commission of 1882–83
The Norman Commission of 1896
The need for alternative crops
Before the Norman Commission
Small farming and alternative crops
The importance of the Norman Commission
11 Constitutional Developments in theBritish Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century
Breakdown of the representative system of government
The representative system
Non-cooperative Assemblies
The judiciary
Local government
Status of Trinidad, St Lucia and British Guiana
Trinidad
St Lucia
British Guiana
The Morant Bay Rebellion
The hardships of the 1850s and 1860s
The key personalities
Events leading to the rebellion
The rebellion
The repression
Judgement on Eyre
The change to Crown Colony government
Crown Colony government in Jamaica
Crown Colony government in the Windward Islands
Crown Colony government in the Leeward Islands
Bahamas, Bermuda and Barbados
Crown Colony government at work
Conclusion
12 Religion in the British Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century
The Anglican Church
Church of England missions
Reforms in the Anglican Church
The creation of two dioceses
Post-emancipation period
The disestablishment of the Church of England
Barbados
Nonconformist Churches
The Moravians
The Wesleyan Methodists
The Baptists
Nonconformist missions
Persecution of Nonconformist Churches
Post-emancipation
The Roman Catholic Church
Immigrant religions
Hinduism
Islam
Hinduism and Islam in the West Indies
13 Social Life and Changes, 1838–1914
After emancipation
Divisions in society
The anti-Portuguese riot in British Guiana
Religious and cultural divisions
The absence of social mobility
The emergence of a diverse culture
West Indian soldiers
Social patterns
Marriage
Matrifocal families
Segregation of the sexes
Kinship
The 'yard'
Social welfare
Education
Charity schools
Mission schools
The training of teachers
School attendance
The dual system
Education under Crown Colony government
Secondary education
Curriculum
Social results of education by 1914
Public health and medical services
Public works
Communications
Railways
Sea transport
Posts and telegraphs
Emigration
Background to emigration
Trinidad and British Guiana
Panama
Central America
Cuba and the Dominican Republic
The United States
Conclusion
Revision Questions
Further Reading
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Back Cover
The book hasn't received reviews yet.
