This course, which spans the period 1600-1886, examines the primary forces and characteristic features evident in the Caribbean between the European invasion and the ending of the various slave regimes. It is concerned with the ways in which conquer, colonization, revolution of the plantation system, slavery and imperialism affected the course of Carib- bean history and fostered a spirit of resistance in its indigenous and en- slaved African people. It looks com paratively at the slave regimes in the Anglophone, Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean and examines

the degree to which the exploited and marginalized [male and female] were able to refashion their world and bring about a collapse of slavery and the plantation system. A significant objective of the course is to use the revisionist sources to interrogate the traditional and often racist/ Eurocentric representations of Caribbean history and facilitate an en- gagement with counter-discourse. The course will pay attention to the diversity of Caribbean populations and take on broad issues of class, colour, gender and ethnicity.

N.B. Can only be taken for Year II credit .