1st Edition

Free Communities of Color and the Revolutionary Caribbean Overturning, or Turning Back?

Edited By Robert D. Taber, Charlton W. Yingling Copyright 2018
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

The tumult of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions provided new opportunities for free communities of color in the Caribbean, yet the fact that much scholarship places an emphasis on a few remarkable individuals—who pursued their freedom and respectability in a high-profile manner—can mask as much as it reveals. Scholarship on these individuals focuses on themes of mobility and resilience, and can... Read more

1. Networks, tastes, and labor in free communities of color: Transforming the revolutionary Caribbean Robert D. Taber and Charlton W. Yingling

2. "A true vassal of the King": Pardo literacy and political identity in Venezuela during the age of revolutions Cristina Soriano

3. Crafting freedom: Race and social mobility among free artisans of color in Cartagena and Charleston John Garrison Marks

4. Smugglers before the Swedish throne: Political activity of free people of color in early nineteenth-century St Barthélemy Ale Pålsson

5. Revolutionary narrations: Early Haitian historiography and the challenge of writing counterhistory Erin Zavitz

6. A case of hidden genocide? Disintegration and destruction of people of color in Napoleonic Europe, 1799–1815 Margaret B. Crosby-Arnold

7. West meets east: Mixed-race Jamaicans in India, and the avenues of advancement in imperial Britain Daniel Livesay

8. "A mass of mestiezen, castiezen, and mulatten": Contending with color in the Netherlands Antilles, 1750–1850 Jessica Vance Roitman

Biography

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.