Book reviews

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Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford University Press. 1988. x, 425 pp. £7.95, paperback. Slavery and the Literary Imagination. Edited by Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press. 1989. xiii, 172 pp. Black Africans and Native Americans: Color, Race and Caste in the Evolution of Red‐Black Peoples. Jack D. Forbes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1988. vi, 345 pp. £35.00. Twice Condemned. Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705–1865. Philip J. Schwarz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1988. xiv, 353pp. £30. Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder. Edited by Carol Bleser. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1988. xxix, 342 pp. $22.95. British West Indian Slavery, 1750–1834: The Process of Amelioration. J. R. Ward. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1988. xi, 320 pp. £30. Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. John Stedman (transcribed for the first time from the original 1790 manuscript and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Price and Sally Price). Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1988. xcvii, 708 pp. £60.50. Sugar is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba. Robert L. Paquette. Middle‐town, Conn: Wesleyan University Press. 1988. xvi, 346 pp. $29.95. Afro‐Caribbean Villages in Historical Perspective. Edited by Charles V. Carnegie. Kingston, Jamaica: African‐Caribbean Institute of Jamaica. 1987. x, 133 pp. After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society. Edited by Howard Johnson. London: Frank Cass. 1988 viii, 147 pp. £15. From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race. Colour and National Independence in Haiti. David Nicholls. London: Macmillan. 1988 (1979). xxii, 357 pp. £9.95. The End of Slavery in Africa.Edited by Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. 1989. xx, 524 pp. $47.50 and $14.95.