'One of the richest spots of ground in the world': indigenous communities, early colonialism, and hereditary racial slavery

'A dreadful state': the making of the racial-caste hierarchy

'The sooner all this mass of impolicy, crime and suffering, is got rid of, the better': anti-Black racism in Britain, abolition, and emancipations

'Our freedom can be taken away from us': struggles for economic justice after emancipation

'Fighting to prove that we are no longer merely subjects, but citizens': war, anti-colonialism, and rebellion

'One united family': the Second World War

'Still colonial at heart': constitutional decolonization and the global Cold War

'Colonization in reverse': Caribbean migration, state racism, and Black radicalism

'Flag independence': Caribbean Black Power and the rise of neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and US imperialism

'Menace to society': (post)-colonial melancholia.