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How did free communities of color protect their social status and economic gains in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions? This book highlights the complications of civil rights and abolition in the late-colonial era Caribbean. This book was first published as a special issue of
Atlantic Studies.
List of contents
1. Networks, tastes, and labor in free communities of color: Transforming the revolutionary Caribbean 2. "A true vassal of the King": Pardo literacy and political identity in Venezuela during the age of revolutions 3. Crafting freedom: Race and social mobility among free artisans of color in Cartagena and Charleston 4. Smugglers before the Swedish throne: Political activity of free people of color in early nineteenth-century St Barthélemy 5. Revolutionary narrations: Early Haitian historiography and the challenge of writing counterhistory 6. A case of hidden genocide? Disintegration and destruction of people of color in Napoleonic Europe, 1799–1815 7. West meets east: Mixed-race Jamaicans in India, and the avenues of advancement in imperial Britain 8. "A mass of mestiezen, castiezen, and mulatten": Contending with color in the Netherlands Antilles, 1750–1850
About the author
Robert D. Taber is Assistant Professor of Government and History at Fayetteville State University, USA, where he researches family life in colonial and revolutionary Haiti. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida, USA.
Charlton W. Yingling is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisville, USA. He studies race and religion in Spanish Santo Domingo during the Age of Revolutions. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, USA.
Summary
How did free communities of color protect their social status and economic gains in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions? This book highlights the complications of civil rights and abolition in the late-colonial era Caribbean. This book was first published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
