Critical Analysis of Slavery Law and Society
“The race is not for the swift but who can endure”
Undoubtedly the four territories under the acquisition of Britain comprising the British Windward Islands indeed had a race to endure of which only the fittest of the fittest could survive, and as such did have profound effects on their development. The book entitled, Slavery, Law and Society in the British Windward Islands 1763-1823, a Comparative Study by Bernard Marshall analyses and examines the extent to which these territories were captivated by using the law to protect the rich white minority while simultaneously exploiting and degrading the black majority of the population of the British Windward Islands. Bernard Marshall in his attempt to scrutinize the economic, social, political and legal framework which bound the lives of the enslaved black populations, free coloureds, and whites in the territories of St. Vincent, Tobago, Dominica, Grenada and the Grenadines, highlights how the law has been used to initiate social engineering of slave society in a significant period of Caribbean history.
The book which was first published in 2007 with the ISBN 976-8189-27-4 diverts its focus on the nature of the slave society and its development in the four ceded Islands to Britain by France. This book is the first attempt to analyse the nature of the slave society in these four communities during sixty critical years of slavery in the Caribbean. It further examines the economic, political, social, religious and legal organisation of society against a background of initial economic decline and shows how it was affected by total dependence upon the institution of Negro Slavery. Focusing on the period 1763 to 1823, Marshall compiles together the history of these Windward Islands to build our understanding of their place in imperial competition for wealth and power between the French and the British by exploiting the poor. He analyses the social structure of their populations and the relationships among the various
Undoubtedly the four territories under the acquisition of Britain comprising the British Windward Islands indeed had a race to endure of which only the fittest of the fittest could survive, and as such did have profound effects on their development. The book entitled, Slavery, Law and Society in the British Windward Islands 1763-1823, a Comparative Study by Bernard Marshall analyses and examines the extent to which these territories were captivated by using the law to protect the rich white minority while simultaneously exploiting and degrading the black majority of the population of the British Windward Islands. Bernard Marshall in his attempt to scrutinize the economic, social, political and legal framework which bound the lives of the enslaved black populations, free coloureds, and whites in the territories of St. Vincent, Tobago, Dominica, Grenada and the Grenadines, highlights how the law has been used to initiate social engineering of slave society in a significant period of Caribbean history.
The book which was first published in 2007 with the ISBN 976-8189-27-4 diverts its focus on the nature of the slave society and its development in the four ceded Islands to Britain by France. This book is the first attempt to analyse the nature of the slave society in these four communities during sixty critical years of slavery in the Caribbean. It further examines the economic, political, social, religious and legal organisation of society against a background of initial economic decline and shows how it was affected by total dependence upon the institution of Negro Slavery. Focusing on the period 1763 to 1823, Marshall compiles together the history of these Windward Islands to build our understanding of their place in imperial competition for wealth and power between the French and the British by exploiting the poor. He analyses the social structure of their populations and the relationships among the various