Watson investigates the emigration of indigenous Amerindians in the West Indies during the period 1834-1900 and their replacement with enslaved Africans. After the emancipation of the slaves in 1833, the poor whites, who used to perform militia service on plantations in the West Indies, were forced to emigrate due to lack of employment opportunities.;
The St. Croix-based West Indies Laboratory will be rejuvenated as the site of a new Caribbean-wide research program. The laboratory was the primary source of scientific data on the Caribbean Sea for 20 years before its destruction by Hurricane Hugo
Book review: A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Blacks in the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Maps. Notes. Index. xiii, 262 p ;
Antenor Firmin (1850-1911) is probably the first scholar of African descent to
write a systematic work of anthropology, one that anticipated the eventual scope and breadth of the new science well beyond the narrow, racialist physical anthropology that it critiqued.
In April 1999, Dionne Brand, Leslie Sanders, and Rinaldo Walcott sat down to have a conversation about Brand's second novel At The Full and Change of the Moon. The
interview took place over a promised riposte, and was a conversation among friends.
The novel concerns itself with the contemporary lives of the descendents of Marie Ursule a slave who commits a rebellious and horrific act of mass poisoning on a plantation but saves her daughter Bolla.
