The slave trade, African slavers and the demography of the Caribbean to 1750; the demographic structure of the Caribbean slave societies; the slave economies of the Caribbean - structure, performance, evolution and significance; the social structure of the slave societies in the Caribbean; maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean; social and political control in the slave society; forms of resistance to slavery; pluralism, creolization and culture; religious beliefs; the disintegration of the Caribbean slave systems, 1772-1886.
