First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chapter 1 Black over White: The 'Poor-White' Problem in Barbados Slave Society; Chapter 2 The Liberated Africans in the Bahamas, 1811-60; Chapter 3 The Settlement of Chinese in Guyana in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 4 The Madeiran Portuguese and the Establishment of the Catholic Church in British Guiana, 1835-98; Chapter 5 British West Indians in Haiti in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 6 Indians and Blacks in Jamaica in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Micro-Study of the Foundation of Race Antagonisms; Chapter 7 Structure, Process and Indian Culture in Trinidad; Chapter 8 Overseas Indians in Malaysia and the Caribbean: Comparative Notes;