Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction to Volume I 1
6. 1 The Formation of a Slave Colony. Race, Nation, and Identity 13
7. 2 Let Them Hate So Long as They Fear. Obeah Trials and Social Cannibalism in Trinidad’s Early Slave Society 52
8. 3 Obeah, Piety, and Poison in The Slave Son. Representations of African Religions in Trinidadian Colonial Literature 104
9. 4 Marked in the Genuine African Way. Liberated Africans and Obeah Doctoring in Postslavery Trinidad 141
10. Afterword. C’est Vrai—It Is True 203
11. Notes 209
12. Bibliography 241
13. Index 253