African Diaspora, Ph.D. is revisiting scholarship that has shaped the study of people of African descent across time and place. Barbara Bush. Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838. Heinemann, 1990. In a 1991 review of the volume, Verene A. Shepherd wrote: "Female slaves have generally been ignored in scholarly research and discourse on the Caribbean. Since … Continue reading BOOK: Bush on Slave Women in Caribbean Society