In addition to "Capitalism and Slavery", Williams produced a number of other scholarly works focused on the Caribbean. Of particular significance are two published long after he had abandoned his academic career for public life: "British Historians and the West Indies" and "From Columbus to Castro". The former, based on research done in the 1940s and initially presented at a symposium at Atlanta University, sought to debunk British historiography on the region and to condemn as racist the 19th- and early 20th-century British perspective on the West Indies. Williams was particularly scathing in his description of the 19th-century British intellectual Thomas Carlyle. The latter work is a general history of the Caribbean from the 15th to the mid-20th centuries. Curiously, it appeared at the same time as a similarly titled book ("De Cristóbal Colón a Fidel Castro") by another Caribbean scholar-statesman, Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic.