Verene A. Shepherd is Professor of Social History at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies . Her research interests are Jamaican Economic History in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Migration Studies and Caribbean Women's History; and she has published widely on those themes. Prof. Shepherd is also President of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Member of the Council of the Institute of Jamaica , Chair of the Board of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust and Chair of the Jamaica National Bicentenary Committee. Her latest book, published in 2007, is I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Post-Colonial Jamaica . She is editor of Freedom Delayed and co-author (with Hilary Beckles), of Trading Souls: Europe ,s Transatlantic Trade in Africans and Saving Souls: The Struggle to End the Transatlantic Trade in Africans , all published in 2007 to mark the of Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic .Trade in Africans.