Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean

by Laurent Dubois

Book Overview

To 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 U.S. annexations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469653605
• ISBN13: 9781469653600
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"