Includes bibliographical references.

The slave-drivers' war : Bussa and the 1816 Barbados slave rebellion / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Forging a Barbadian identity : lessons from the 1816 'Bussa' slave rebellion / Pedro Welch -- Samuel Jackman Prescod / George A.V. Belle -- De(Re) constructing identities : World War I and the growth of Barbadian/West Indian nationalism / Glenford D. Howe -- The struggle for political democracy : Charles Duncan O'Neal and the Democratic League / Keith Hunte -- The 1937 disturbances and Barbadian nationalism / David V.C. Browne -- Grantley Herbert Adams, Asquithian liberalism and socialism : which way forward for Barbados, from the 1920s to the 1940s? / Anthony De V. Phillips -- Sir Grantley Adams as seen by others : oral histories of the private man / Karl Watson -- Pan-Africanism in Barbados / Rodney Worrell -- Radicalism and Errol Barrow in the political tradition of Barbados / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Popular/folk/creative arts and the nation / Curwen Best -- Fashioning an identity : the development of Bajan as a 'nation' language / Korah Belgrave -- Gathering forces : Barbados and the viability of the national option / Don D. Marshall -- Roots : a genealogy of the 'Barbadian personality' / Richard L.W. Clarke.