Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, thisvolume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age ofrevolution." -- Choice
"(An) eminently original andintellectually exciting book." -- William and MaryQuarterly
This volume examines several slave societies in theGreater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of therevolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slavelabor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantationcolonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, whichproved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of theantislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions ofresistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists.