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.;
Blouet profiles author Eliza Fenwick. Fenwick, an articulate, intellectual Englishwoman, operated a private school in Bridgetown for the daughters of upper class Barbadian society in the early nineteenth century.;
