Maharani's Misery

Verene A. Shepherd is Professor Emerita of History and Gender Studies at the University of the West Indies. She researches Jamaican economic history, slavery, reparations and gender discourses in Caribbean history. She is the author of several books, including Livestock, Sugar & Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica and I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Post-Colonial Jamaica.