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First Published in 1986. This volume is the second of the three-volume edition of the proceedings of an international conference on Legacies of West Indian Slavery held at the University of Hull in July 1983 to commemorate the sesquicentenary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Its focus is on the contemporary Caribbean and the omnipresent legacies of slavery that continue to mark everyday life in the region.

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• Introduction - the past in the present
• the post-war decline of the sugar economy in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• sugar in Barbados and Martinique - a socio-economic comparison
• the sugar protocol of the Lome Conventions and the Caribbean
• citizenship and parliamentary politics in the English-speaking Caribbean
• the political economy of independence of the former associated states of the Commonwealth Caribbean
• Guyane - a departement like the others?
• an economic policy for Martinique
• the social and political thought of Aime Cesaire and C.L.R. James - some comparisons
• cultural dualism and political domination in Haiti
• contemporary educational issues in the Commonwealth Caribbean

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CHOICE Review

As an effort at comparative Caribbean studies, and on that basis alone, this collection merits an accolade. Unfortunately, only 3 of the 10 essays actually compare the ``dual'' legacies (British and French) indicated in the title of the volume while the other heritages of the Caribbean (Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and US) are ignored. The essays are taken from the proceedings of a 1983 international conference, Legacies of West Indian Slavery. The collection, therefore, contains unrelated articles on politics in the Commonwealth Caribbean, questions of independence for the French D;epartement, and speculation on the economic health of both. Some of the scholarship is excellent: Sleeman's comparative study of sugar in Barbados and Martinique is incisive. Sutton's piece on the relationship of the Sugar Protocol, the Caribbean, and the EEC does an admirable job of explaining a complex economic convention. Notwithstanding Sutton's attempt to draw the contributions together in his introduction, the volume lacks coherency as a comparative work, but can be recommended to special collections for its generally high standard of analysis.-R. Delson, Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies