Turbulent Time

David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History at Duke University, is the author of Bondmen and Rebels, co-editor of More Than Chattel, and author of many articles about the African diaspora. David Patrick Geggus, Professor of History at the University of Florida, is the author of Haitian Revolutionary Studies (IU Press) and Slavery, War, and Revolution.

"Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution." Choice "An eminently original and intellectually exciting book." William and Mary Quarterly "... excellent ... While some anthologies suffer from unevenness and lack a coherent center, A Turbulent Time is a series of nine well-written essays whose whole is the sum of its parts." The Journal of American History "Anyone who wants to thoroughly understand the period in question should own this book." Caribbean Historical & Genealogical Journal "All of the essays are beautifully crafted and researched and analytically rigorous. It is destined to become an instant classic, inspiring historians of slavery to even greater heights of research and analysis." H-Net Reviews

• Introduction1. Slavery, War, and Revolution in the Greater Caribbean 1789–1815, David P. Geggus2. The French revolution in Saint Dominique: Triumph or Failure?, Carolyn E. Fick3. The French Revolution and British Attitudes to the Caribbean Colonies, Michael Duffy4. La Guerre des Bois: Revolution, War and Slavery in Saint Lucia, 1793–1838, David Barry Gaspar5. Slave Resistance in the Spanish Caribbean in the Mid- 1790s, David P. Geggus6. Rebellion and Royalism in Spanish Florida: The French Revolution on Spain's Northern Colonial Frontier, Jane Landers7. Conflicting Loyalties: The French Revolution and Free People of Color in Spanish New Orleans, Kimberly S. Hanger8. Revolutionary St. Dominique in the Making of Territorial Louisiana, Robert L. Paquette9. The Admission of Slave Testimony at British Military Courts in the West Indies, 1800–1809, Roger N. BuckleyContributorsIndex