Hi Dave,
I've got some quick thoughts on readings that you requested; I'm not so
familiar with Barbados, but there's lots of good general readings covering
efforts at control as well as resistance in the British West Indies. (I'll copy
this to the whole mail list so we don't all repeat our efforts!).
A good starting place is the H. Beckles and V. Shepherd collection Caribbean
Freedom: Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present (1993), which has
excerpts from lots of well known articles. Then there is F. McGlynn and S.
Drescher's edited collection The Meaning of Freedom (1992), and Thomas Holt's
The Problem of Freedom (1992) for a Jamaican perspective. Another really useful
book is Karen Olwig's edited collection Small Islands, Large Questions:
Society, Culture and resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (1995),
which has some material on Barbados. And of course, from an earlier generation
there is William Green's (1976) British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies
and the Great Experiment 1830-1865, which still remains interesting.
But the person you should really talk to is Melanie Newton, at Oxford, whose
Ph.D. is on Barbados in the post-slavery period.
Hope that's helpful,
Mimi
Mimi Sheller
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YL
England
tel: +44-1524-65201 ext. 93442
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