Books by Michael Craton

The first complete history of a West Indian sugar estate, this is not just the story of a single Jamaican plantation and its people over three hundred years; the study reveals, in microcosm, the social and economic development of the area.

Though centered on a single Jamaican sugar estate, and dealing largely with the period of formal slavery, this book is firmly placed in far wider contexts of place and time. The "Invisible Man" of the title is found, in the end, to be not just the formal slave but the ordinary black worker throughout the history of the plantation system.

A comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, this series tells the history of all the people who have ever inhabited the archipelago. This second volume deals with adjustment to emancipation, followed by a study of the process of modernization and a narratiave of events since 1973.