Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica

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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…

Author: Mimi Sheller · Original publisher: Macmillan Caribbean / Macmillan Publishers (London / Oxford, 2000)

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