List of Tables
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
History, women and gender analysis
Chapter 1
Indigenous Caribbean women
Chapter 2
European women in the pre-emancipation period
Chapter 3
Enslaved women
Chapter 4
Free women of colour during slavery
Chapter 5
Adjustments to emancipation and socio-economic life in the 19th and 20th centuries
Chapter 6
Immigrant women in the post-slavery period
Chapter 7
On the move: women and emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries
Chapter 8
Women and political activities in the late 19th and 20th centuries
Index
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LIST OF MAPS
Migration route of indigenous peoples from across the Bering Straits
Caribbean migration patterns of indigenous peoples
Location of Maya civilisation
West African coast slave trading area
Primary emigrant areas in Southern China in the 19th century
Recruitment areas in India
Principal overseas indentured migrations, 1834-1919
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Taino ornaments
Taino food and utensils
Taino pottery
Indigenous woman from British Guiana spinning cotton
Taino men prepare for a voyage
Kalinago men
Black Caribs from St Vincent, c. 1773
A Planter’s house
King’s House in Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1844
Lady Maria Nugent
Afternoon at the Titchfield Piazza in Jamaica
Slave auction
An enslaved woman in chains
Branding of an enslaved woman
Whipping of an enslaved woman
Sunday market in Antigua
Free coloureds in Dominica, 1770s
Free ”people of colour”
Date Tree Hall lodging, Jamaica
Poster advertising the services offered by Date Tree Hall
Free coloured woman on racecourse in Jamaica
Mary Seacole’s hotel in Crimea
Rachel Pringle
Mary Seacole
Ginger harvesting in Jamaica
Cane cutters
Mat-making at handicraft factory in Dominica
Making yippi yappe hats
Domestics with coconuts
Banana carriers
Cocoa harvest
Candy sellers
”Mending our ways”
Going to market
Jubilee market
Street hawker selling yarns, c. 1900
Domestic worker
Nanny with her charge, c. 1880
Nurse in Barbados, c. 1917
Chinese immigrants, 1854
Indian woman in Jamaica, late 19th century
Indian girl in Trinidad, 19th century
Group worship on the estate
Twenty-eight members of the ATS at the Colonial Office
Connie Marks at Up Park Camp
Odessa Gittens
Nelly Robinson
Gwen Tonge
Elma Francois
Ruth Ambrose
Edris James
Earnie Dyer
Lady Bustamante
Dame Doris Johnson
Muriel Weekes
Eugenia Charles
Janet Jagan
Amy Bailey
Amy Jaques Garvey
Edna Manley
Una Marson
Margaret Dyer-Howe
Mary Rose Tuitt
Audrey Jeffers