Democracy After Slavery

Mimi Sheller's ground-breaking comparative study analyzes the struggle for freedom and democracy in two Caribbean societies in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. Pairing the revolutionary Republic of Haiti with the British colony of Jamaica, the author shows how peasants in the 19th-century Caribbean developed a radical critique of elite liberalism and constructed an alternative Pan-Caribbean African identity. Comparing two major peasant rebellions and the relation between them, she describes how Haitian and Jamaican survivors of slavery contributed to the making of democracy in the West.

Author: Mimi Sheller
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 01/01/2000
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780813018836
ISBN10: 0813018838
BISAC Categories:
- History | Caribbean & West Indies | General
- History | World | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General