Examines the political movements of free people of color in Barbados during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This book complicates understandings of these people as both enslavers and kin to enslaved peoples. Newton argues that although they were often a marginalized population, free people were a vital part of the political landscape during the abolition and amelioration period. This text engages with the history of Afro-Barbados, racialization, and enslavement.