An elite regiment from the CaribbeanThis is an excellent regiment history of a British colonial force raised in the West Indies among the coloured population wh

Demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape the very idea of race in the nineteenth century Atlantic world.

Buckley's acute analysis shows how the creation of a large body of slave soldiers caused dramatic modifications in the social order. To avoid conflict with poli

Reproduction of the original: The First West India Regiment by A.B. Ellis

Reproduction of the original: The First West India Regiment by A.B. Ellis