Introduction: The Material Cultures of Slavery and Abolition in the British Caribbean; Section I - Planters, workers and the development of plantation space; 1. The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early Plantation Life in Seventeenth-Century Barbados 2. Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries: The Material Culture of Improvement during the Age of Abolition in Barbados 3. Plantations and Homes: The Material Culture of the Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Elite; Section II - Material inequalities and practices inside enslaved communities; 4. The 'Better Sort' and the 'Poorer Sort': Wealth Inequalities, Family Formation and the Economy of Energy on British Caribbean Sugar Plantations, 1750-1800 5. Death and Burial at Marshall's Pen, a Jamaican Coffee Plantation, 1814-1839: Examining the End of Life at the End of Slavery; Section III - The uses and meanings of material culture between slavery and freedom; 6. Unsettled Houses: The Material Culture of the Missionary Project in Jamaica in the Era of Emancipation 7. Plantation Labourer Rebellions, Material Culture and Events: Historical Archaeology at Geneva Estate, Grand Bay, Commonwealth of Dominica 8.

Afterword: Survival and Silence in the Material Record of Slavery and Abolition.