This volume examines developments within several societies in the
Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary period to illustrate the
pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutions on the
region. People who lived through the age of the French Revolution
often felt the world had entered a chaotic new era. Welding a
dynamic ideology of liberty and equality, a new concept of state
power, and a nascent sense of nationalism, revolutionary France and
its Napoleonic successor plunged Europe into a quarter-century of
warfare and tumultuous change. Outside of Europe, the region most
threatened and in some ways most affected by this upheaval was the
plantation zone surrounding the Caribbean sea, which was then of
extreme importance to the European and North American economies.
Built precariously on the massive exploitation of slave labour,
organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, they
were peculiarly vulnerable to the libertarian message of the French
Revolution. That message proved all the more potent because it
coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the
Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance
among the region's slav
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