A Turbulent Time : The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean

"Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume isrequired reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution."--Choice "[An] eminently original and intellectually excitingbook." --William and Mary Quarterly This volume examines several slavesocieties in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of therevolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organizedaccording to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularlyvulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all the more potent because itcoincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted withlocal traditions of resistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and whitecolonists.