Freedoms Won: Caribbean Emancipations, Ethnicities and Nationhood
, by Hilary McD. Beckles , Verene A. Shepherd- ISBN: 9780521435451 | 0521435455
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/16/2007
Topics covered in Freedoms Won include: aftermath of emancipation; African-Caribbean peasantry; Asian arrival in the Caribbean; social and political experiences of the working classes in the immediate post-slavery period; the Caribbean economy; US intervention and imperialist tendencies from the 18th century; the Labour Movement in the Caribbean in the 20th century; the social life and culture of the Caribbean people and social protest; decolonisation and nationhood.