Contains lectures presented at Cave Hill from 1987-93 to honour the memory of Elsa Goveia, a highly regarded Caribbean historian. Themes and topics include Thistlewood's Journals (Douglas Hall), slave conditions in Barbados and other islands (Richard Sheridan), slavery and freedom in Brazil and Louisiana. HILARY McD. BECKLES is Professor of Economic and Social History and Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies. His many publications include Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide ; A Nation Imagined: The First West Indies Test Tour, 1928 ; and Freedoms Won: Emancipation, Identity and Nationhood in the Caribbean .