Freedom Roots – Histories from the Caribbean Dubois Turits Paperback

Freedom RootsHistories from the Caribbean\nAuthor(s): Laurent Dubois, Richard Lee Turits\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469672557, 978-1469672557\nSynopsis\nTo tell the history of the Caribbean is to tell the history of the world,\"" write Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turits. In this powerful and expansive story of the vast archipelago, Dubois and Turits chronicle how the Caribbean has been at the heart of modern contests between slavery and freedom, racism and equality, and empire and independence. From the emergence of racial slavery and European colonialism in the early sixteenth century to [url] annexations and military occupations in the twentieth, systems of exploitation and imperial control have haunted the region. Yet the Caribbean is also where empires have been overthrown, slavery was first defeated, and the most dramatic revolutions triumphed. Caribbean peo.