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Loading... A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbeanby David Barry Gaspar (Editor), David Patrick Geggus (Editor)
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Belongs to SeriesBlacks in the Diaspora (1997)
"Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume is required 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 several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)972.9History and Geography North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda West Indies (Antilles) and Bermuda; CaribbeanLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |