Editing Eric Williams (section)

===The Eric Williams Memorial Collection===
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The [[Eric Williams Memorial Collection]] (EWMC) at the [[University of the West Indies]] in Trinidad and Tobago was inaugurated in 1998 by former [[US Secretary of State]] [[Colin Powell]]. In 1999, it was named to [[UNESCO]]'s prestigious [[Memory of the World Register]]. Secretary Powell heralded Williams as a tireless warrior in the battle against colonialism, and for his many other achievements as a scholar, politician and international statesman.

The Collection consists of the late Dr. Williams' Library and Archives. Available for consultation by researchers, the Collection amply reflects its owner's eclectic interests, comprising some 7,000 volumes, as well as correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, historical writings, research notes, conference documents and a miscellany of reports. The Museum contains a wealth of emotive memorabilia of the period and copies of the seven translations of Williams' major work, ''[[Capitalism and Slavery]]'' (into Russian, Chinese and Japanese [1968, 2004] among them, and a Korean translation was released in 2006). Photographs depicting various aspects of his life and contribution to the development of Trinidad and Tobago complete this extraordinarily rich archive, as does a three-dimensional re-creation of Williams' study.

Dr Colin Palmer, Dodge Professor of History at [[Princeton University]], has said: "as a model for similar archival collections in the Caribbean...I remain very impressed by its breadth.... [It] is a national treasure." Palmer's biography of Williams up to 1970, ''Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean'' ([[University of North Carolina Press]], 2008), is dedicated to the Collection.