Skip to main content
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Fulcrum logo

Share the story of what Open Access means to you

a graphic of a lock that is open, the universal logo for open access

University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.

  1. Home
  2. Testing the chains: resistance to slavery in the British West Indies

Testing the chains: resistance to slavery in the British West Indies

Michael Craton 2009 © Cornell University Press
Read Book
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801412523 (hardcover)
  • 9780801475283 (paper)
Subject
  • Caribbean
Citable Link

  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

  • Stats

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page 11)
  • Introduction (page 19)
  • PART ONE: The Plantation World and Slave Resistance Short of Rebellion
    • 1. The Plantation at Work (page 31)
    • 2. Backra and Negar (page 36)
    • 3. Making a Life of Their Own (page 44)
    • 4. Quashie as Hero (page 52)
  • PART TWO: Maroon Resistance, 1600-1775
    • 5. Marronage: the General Context (page 61)
    • 6. The Jamaican Maroons: Origins, 1600-1700 (page 67)
    • 7. Cudjoe's War and Its Aftermath, 1700-1775 (page 81)
  • PART THREE: African Slaves
    • 8. The African Phase (page 99)
    • 9. Barbados, 1645-1701 (page 105)
    • 10. Antigua Echoes Barbados, 1687-1737 (page 115)
    • 11. Jamaica, 1760: Tacky's Revolt (page 125)
    • 12. New Colonies, Traditional Resistance, 1763-1802 (page 140)
  • PART FOUR: Slave Resistance in the Age of Revolution, 1775-1815
    • 13. An Inescapable Context? (page 161)
    • 14. The First Afro-Caribbean Slave Plot in Jamaica: Hanover, 1776 (page 172)
    • 15. The Storm Breaks: Grenada and St. Vincent, 1795 (page 180)
    • 16. The Pacification of the Windward Islands, 1796-1797 (page 195)
    • 17. The Final Maroon War in Jamaica, 1795-1796 (page 211)
    • 18. The Subjugation of Dominica and Trinidad, 1791-1814 (page 224)
  • PART FIVE: Slave Rebellions and Emancipation, 1816-1832
    • 19. Creolization and Resistance (page 241)
    • 20. Bussa's Rebellion: Barbados, 1816 (page 254)
    • 21. The Demerara Revolt, 1823 (page 267)
    • 22. The Baptist War: The Jamaican Rebellion of 1831-1832 (page 291)
  • Epilogue (page 323)
  • Chronology of Resistance, 1638-1837 (page 335)
  • Glossary (page 341)
  • Notes (page 347)
  • Credits and Sources for Photos (page 381)
  • Index (page 383)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IJAHS 17.1 (1984): 119-120 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281984%2917%3A1%3C119%3ATTCRTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
JIH 15.1 (Summer 1984): 173-175 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28198422%2915%3A1%3C173%3ATTCRTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N
WMQ 40.4 (Oct. 1983): 624-626 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28198310%293%3A40%3A4%3C624%3ATTCRTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
HAHR 64.1 (Feb. 1984): 162-163 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2168%28198402%2964%3A1%3C162%3ATTCRTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
JAH 71.1 (June 1984): 107-108 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28198406%2971%3A1%3C107%3ATTCRTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
EHR 101.398 (Jan. 1986): 263-264 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28198601%29101%3A398%3C263%3ATTCRTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
AHR 89.2 (April 1984): 561-562 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198404%2989%3A2%3C561%3ATTCRTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
LARR 21.1 (1986): 202-215 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0023-8791%281986%2921%3A1%3C202%3ATSTASI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
1,906 views since June 26, 2018
ACLS Humanities E-Book logo

ACLS Humanities E-Book

  • About HEB
  • Contact HEB
  • For Librarians
  • Subscriptions

Powered by Fulcrum logo

  • About
  • Blog
  • Feedback
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Accessibility
  • Preservation
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Service
  • Log In
© ACLS Humanities E-Book 2020
x This site requires cookies to function correctly.