Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in its Ideological Aspects, 1492-1900 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)

Shows how European, Asian, and African ideas became hybridized in the Caribbean, and traces the intellectual development of the region from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries "Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region's unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region's characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought."--BOOK JACKET. Frontmatter Preface (page ix) 1. The Sociohistorical Setting (page 1) 2. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Beginnings of Caribbean Thought (page 29) 3. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Proslavery Ideology (page 94) 4. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Antislavery Ideology (page 171) 5. The Growth of Nationalist Thought to 1900 (page 239) 6. Conclusion (page 321) Notes (page 331) Index (page 365) The Sociohistorical Setting -- The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries : The Beginnings Of Caribbean Thought -- The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries : The Antislavery Ideology -- The Growth Of Nationalist Thought To 1900 -- Conclusion. Gordon K. Lewis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Gordon K. Lewis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 331-364) And Index.