Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown Barbados 1680-1834

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This is one of the first specialised treatments of an Anglophone Caribbean port-town by a contemporary historian This is one of the few full length studies of urban, as opposed to planation slavery The book shows how life in urban slave society departed significantly from that of the rural plantation. There is considerable evidence indicating that slaves and freed persons found and utilised ‘room to manouevre options’ in the urban context Timely publication, co-incident with the 375th anniversary of the founding of Bridgetown, Barbados