A Turbulent Time
Subtitle: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean
Contributors: David Barry Gaspar (Editor); David Patrick Geggus (Editor)
Series: Blacks in the Diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: June 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780253210869
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Colonization & independence; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Caribbean islands; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Caribbean Area; France; History; Influence; Louisiana; Revolution, 1789-1799; Slave insurrections; To 1810; West Indies
First sentence: Just when the system of plantation slavery in the Caribbean was reaching its apogee at the end of the eighteenth century, it faced an unprecedented series of challenges.