This book is the first attempt to pull together the scattered material on women from the secondary sources into one place with the aim of providing students, teachers and the general reader with easily accessible information on Caribbean women of diverse ethnic origins. Women in Caribbean History, as an introductory text, responds to the need to project a more positive image of Caribbean women and to counter the stereotypes and negative images presented by early colonisers and settlers and the writings of European planters, missionaries and travellers to the Caribbean. There are over 80 maps, photographs and tables illustrating the activities of Caribbean women from pre-Columbian times to the contemporary period.