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- Robin Blackburn. The overthrow of colonial slavery 1776-1848. London: Verso, 1988
- Sir Alan Burns. History of the British West Indies. Second edition. London, George Allen and Unwin, 1965
- Sir Reginald Coupland. The British anti-slavery movement. Second edition. London: Frank Cass, 1964
- David Brion Davis. The problem of slavery in the age of revolution, 1770-1823. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975
- Richard Slator Dunn. Sugar and slaves: the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. London: Cape,1973
- Gisela Eisner. Jamaica, 1830-1930: a study in economic growth. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1961
- Doris Garraway. The libertine colony: creolization in the early French Caribbean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
- Larry Gragg, ‘Littleton, Edward (bap. 1625, d. 1702)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Available: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16782, Accessed: 30 Jan 2011
- William A Green. British slave emancipation: the sugar colonies and the great experiment, 1830-1865. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976
- Gad Heuman. The killing time’: the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica. London: Macmillan, 1994
- Richard A. Howard. 'The St. Vincent botanic garden -- The early years', Arnoldia, Winter, 1997-98, pp.12-22
- Peter Hulme and Neil L. Whitehead (eds.) Wild Majesty: encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the present day: an anthology. Oxord: Clarendon Press, 1992.
- Stiv Jakobsson. Am I not a man and a brother? British missions and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in West Africa and the West Indies. Uppsala: Gleerup, 1972
- Franklin W. Knight. Slave societies of the Caribbean. General history of the Caribbean.Vol. 3. Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbean; London: UNESCO Publishing, 1997
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- James E. McClellan III. Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the old regime. University of Chicago Press, 2010
- JS Olson (ed.) Historical dictionary of European imperialism. New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991
- Thomas Ott. The Haitian revolution, 1789-1804. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1973
- JM Parry and PM Sherlock. A short history of the West Indies. London: MacMillan, 1965
- Oliver Ransford. The slave trade: the story of transatlantic slavery. London: John Murray, 1971
- C. Duncan Rice. The rise and fall of black slavery. London: Macmillan, 1975
- Steven Sarson. British America, 1500-1800: creating colonies, imagining an empire. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005
- Richard Sheridan. Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, [1974]
- Douglas MacRae Taylor. The black Carib of British Honduras. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1951
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In this exhibition
- The challenge to Spain
- International rivalry
- Sugar
- Indigenous peoples
- Revolts and revolution
- The road to emancipation in the British colonies
- The 'mighty experiment': Britain's Caribbean colonies after emancipation
- Natural history
- Nineteenth century Caribbean colonial life
- Select bibliography