This work is a collection of selected essays which illustrate the historical and continuing efforts in the various spheres of human endeavour in the Caribbean,including culture, education, language, social organization, gender and politics - notwithstanding the constraints placed on Caribbean people by the legacies of slavery and colonialism - to finish the business of emancipation.

Appropriately depicted in the title An Unconquerable Spirit, Helen Francis-Seaman’s seminal study details the history of resistance to settler colonialism by the Kalinago, Garifuna, and Maroon communities in Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and other Eastern Caribbean islands. The arrival of Christopher Colombus in 1492 was followed by the genocide of the Arawakan (Taino) communities and the marginalisation of other indigenous ethnic groups. Francis-Seaman describes the nu...

This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference “Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807–2007”, a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire. The papers interrogate and problematize shifting notions and expressions of “freedom” as they have evolved in Caribbean societies over the past two hundred years and as they have been applied in the context of the contemporary Caribbean.