A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Gaspar, David Barry
Published: 02/07/2003
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253210869
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.14w x 0.87d