| A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean Contributor(s): Gaspar, David Barry (Editor), Geggus, David Patrick (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253332478 ISBN-13: 9780253332479 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 972.9 |
| LCCN: 96033248 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.41" W x 9.59" (1.41 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |