• Consequences (social, economic, ecological, cultural, etc.) of the European conquest of the Caribbean
• Caribbean slavery as an economic and demographic system
• Slave women, the family, and culture-building in the Caribbean
• Capitalism, slavery, and anti-slavery (the so-called Williams Debate)
• Resistance, rebellion, and the forging of autonomous and/or independent spaces and states
• Causes and consequences of Emancipation
• Marronage and maroon societies.