Introduction
Chapter 1. Planter Politics and the Fear of Slave Revolt
Chapter 2. Edward Long's Vision of Jamaica and the Virtues of a Planned Society
Chapter 3. A Brutal System: Managing Enslaved People in Jamaica
Chapter 4. Tacky's Revolt and Its Legacies
Chapter 5. The Ambiguous Place of Free People in Jamaica
Chapter 6. The Somerset Decision and the Birth of Proslavery Arguments in the British West Indies
Chapter 7. The Zong, Jamaican Commerce, and the American Revolution
Chapter 8. Loyalism and Rebellion in Plantation Societies
Chapter 9. Slavery and Industrialization: The "New History of Capitalism" and Williams Redux
Epilogue: Jamaica and the State in the Age of the American Revolution, 1760-88
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments