Overview: Examines Caribbean people resisting racial, political, and social oppression.Argues that through song, language, religion and festivals, Carribean people maintained cultures and identities.Explores thThis book examines Caribbean people resisting racial, political, and social oppression from the eve of the 1790s Haitian Revolution to the twenty-first century. Migrating rebels, shipments of newspapers, rumors, and acts of resistance themselves inspired people throughout the Caribbean who launched their own acts of defiance, illustrating the transnational nature of Caribbean resistance.
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