"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."
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"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."
Imprint | Indiana University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 1997 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | March 1997 |
Editors | David Barry Gaspar, David Patrick Geggus |
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Paper over boards |
Pages | 280 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-33247-9 |
Barcode | 9780253332479 |
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LSN | 0-253-33247-8 |