Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and Chair of the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission at the Office of the Prime Minister of Jamaica.

Introduction to the 2022 Edition: Life and Scholarship in the Shadow of Slavery
Preface
I The Masters: An Overall View of Slavery
II The Slave Plantation: Its Socio-Economic Structure
III The Treatment of the Slaves in Law and Custom
IV An Analysis of the Slave Population of Jamaica
V The Tribal Origins of the Jamaican Slaves
VI The Socialization and Personality Structure of the Slave
VII Social Institutions of the Slaves: Witchcraft, Sorcery and Religion
VIII Social Institutions of the Slaves: Economy, Recreation and Control
XIV The Mechanisms of Resistance to Slavery
XX The Cultural and Social Development of Jamaica: 1655-1865
Appendix 1: Stephen Fullers Account of the Number of Negroes imported and exported at Jamaica each year, 1702-75
Appendix 2: Exports from Jamaica, 1768
Appendix 3: General Return from the Island of Jamaica, for Fifty-Three Years, ending 31st December 1836, abstracted from the Journals of the House Assembly
Appendix 4: Output, Income and Expenditure in 1832
Appendix 5: Manuscripts and Official Publications Consulted
Appendix 6: Europeans in West Africa; Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Appendix 7: Africa as known to Europeans in the Mid-eighteenth Century
Index