This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean.

"Recommended collection. For anthropological contributions see Berleant-Schiller on the shift from labor to peasantry in Montserrat (item #bi 98014910#); Besson on land, kinship, and community (item #bi 98014915#); Lowes on elites in Antigua (item #bi 98015908#); and Olwig on cultural complexity and freedom in Saint Kitts and Nevis (item #bi 98016032#)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.