As the Preface states, this book is a result of a research project
for the History Department of the University of the West Indies. It
is a work which sought to examine the way in which the slave policy
of the British government was implemented in a new slave colony.
Faced with recalcitrance on the part of the older West Indian
colonies, the Colonial Office did not accord Trinidad an
independent legislature because it felt it could more easily
implement its slave policy. Trinidad proved to be no more compliant
than the other colonies, and logistically was not easy to
supervise. No study has previously been done of the slave process
in Trinidad. A statistical analysis of the registration was
undertaken by A. Meredith John in 1988. The present study is
important because it has focussed on an area that needed to be
examined, and one which illustrates that one cannot generalise on
the West Indies. It shows how easily a policy can fail, if
administrators are not in sync - as those in London were not during
this seminal period. The baneful effects of the British experiments
extended to persons like the free coloured and black people, who
were on the periphery of the system, but who were materially
affected by it. This book is significant because it fills a gap in
knowledge about an important aspect of the island's history. It
also affords an opportunity to look at the attempt to make changes
in a society that, for the most part, was not English. As such it
stands as a warning of the need to understand the cultures of those
for whom systems are devised before they are imposed.
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