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.;
Campbell discusses the history of education in the Dominican Republic over a long period of time, from the inception of Spanish colonization in Hispaniola to the achievement of its first real independence in 1844. He seeks not to enter into postmodernist debates about the viability of the traditional historical narrative but to search for truth about what really happened through the traditional use of the sources.;