Verene Shepherd is Director of the Centre for Reparation Research, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her many publications include I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Postcolonial Jamaica, Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica, and Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean. She worked with Sir Hilary McD. Beckles to edit and publish Lucille Mathurin Mair’s pioneering thesis, A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844.

Verene Shepherd is Director of the Centre for Reparation Research, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her many publications include I Want to Disturb My Neighbour: Lectures on Slavery, Emancipation and Postcolonial Jamaica, Livestock, Sugar and Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica, and Maharani’s Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean. She worked with Sir Hilary McD. Beckles to edit and publish Lucille Mathurin Mair’s pioneering thesis, A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844.