Vol. 11, No. 4, SPECIAL NUMBER on THE CONFERENCE ON POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN, DECEMBER, 1961 (DECEMBER, 1962), "Slavery and the plantation system rapidly developed in the British West Indies from about the middle of the 17th century. The purposes of this paper are first to discuss in some detail the essential socio-economic which beset the plantation societies there; secondly to outline the major political, social, economic, and consequences of the full emancipation of the slaves in 1838; and finally to indicate how the problems of slavery and of the post-emancipation period affect the present day." --The Author
Presented at a conference on "Changing Patterns in the Caribbean," University of Wichita, June 13, 1961., "We are interested not only in the size of population in the Caribbean area at present, but in the rates of population increase. In the West Indies, the highest birth rates (40 and over per thousand population) are found in islands which include about 23 percent of the population (the Windward Islands, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, the Leewards, Guadeloupe, and Martinique). Birth rates that intermediates for the West Indies (35 to 37) are found in 41 percent of the region's population (Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Jamaica, and Haiti). The lowest level of fertility in the West Indies (33 or less) is found in 36 percent of the Caribbean population (Cuba, Barbados, and the Netherlands Antilles)."
