Description
Stimulating, incisive, insightful, every so often revisionist, this volume is needed reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution.” ―Choice
[An] eminently original and intellectually exciting book.” ―William and Mary Quarterly
This volume examines a couple of slave societies within the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered have an effect on of the revolutionary age at the region. Built precariously at the exploitation of slave labor, organized consistent with the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly liable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all of the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement within the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance a few of the region’s slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists.