History Matters

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

HEATHER CATEAU

Part 1: The Colonial Caribbean in Transition

1 ‘Little England’ vs ‘Great Britain’: Barbados Slavers in the Emancipation Debate

HILARY MCD. BECKLES

2 No ‘Gentle Glide’ From Enslavement to Emancipation: The Post-Emancipation Labour Struggles in Tobago, 1838–1919

RITA PEMBERTON

3 The Impact of Christianity on Naming Practices in Post-Emancipation Barbados

PEDRO L.V. WELCH

Part 2: Law, Justice and Empire

4 From Unicameralism to Bicameralism: Trinbago Constitutional Advances (1831–1962)

BRINSLEY SAMAROO

5 “The Thorough Knowledge of the Island and All its Departments and Instruction in Political Science”: Representing the Patria in Puerto Rico’s First Elections Under Spain’s 1812 Constitution

JUAN GONZÁLEZ MENDOZA

6 The Crown Is Not Welcomed: Government and Politics in British Guiana, 1953–1957

JAMES ROSE

7 Eric Williams and C.L.R. James: Intellectual Symbiosis and Political Counterpoint

HUMBERTO GARCÍA-MUÑIZ

Part 3: Gendered Testimonies

8 Bridget Brereton’s Gendered Historiography of the Caribbean

GELIEN MATTHEWS

9 Egodocuments by Women as Sources for Caribbean History: Three Cases from Late Colonial Suriname

ROSEMARIJN HOEFTE

10 Imperial First Lady of Trinidad, Lady Rachel Hamilton-Gordon 1865–1870

DANE MORTON-GITTENS

11 Slavery, Gender and the Historiography of the French Antilles, 1635–1848

BERNARD MOITT

Part 4: Engendering History: Social and Political Life in the Caribbean

12 Gender and Protest at Morant Bay and in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean

GAD HEUMAN

13 Inclusion/Exclusion: Women, Citizenship and Political Franchise in Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad and Tobago

RHODA REDDOCK

14 Gender and Nation-Building in Barbados

MARY CHAMBERLAIN

15 Ascent to Leadership: Women and the National Union of Public Workers of Barbados, 1975–1995

RICHARD A. GOODRIDGE

Part 5: Race Relations in the Caribbean: Contested Narratives

16 “Passing for White” in Bahamian Society During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

GAIL SAUNDERS

17 It Featured a Gymkhana? Conflicting Identities in the Early Years of the Modern Crop Over Festival

MARCIA BURROWES

18 Contesting Narratives of Trinidad and Tobago’s History: The Contribution of Bridget Brereton and an Exploration of the Syrian/Lebanese Narrative

FIONA ANN RAJKUMAR

Part 6: History Matters: The Historian and Her Craft

19 Bridget Brereton and the Narratives of Modern Trinidad: An Assessment of Three Volumes

MICHAEL TOUSSAINT

20 Called to Action: Caribbean Historians and the Preservation of Primary Sources for the History of the Region

JOHN A. AARONS

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index