Curaçao in the age of revolutions, 1795-1800 /

Curaçao in the age of revolutions, 1795-1800 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Leiden : KITLV Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (x, 180 pages)
Language:English
Series:Caribbean series, 0921-9781 ; 30
Dutch Atlantic connections
Dutch Atlantic connections.
Caribbean series (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)) ; 30.
Subject:
Slave insurrections -- Curaçao -- 18th century.
Slave insurrections.
Curaçao -- History -- 18th century.
Curaçao.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397779
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Other authors / contributors:Klooster, Wim.
Oostindie, Gert.
ISBN:1299783996
9781299783997
9789004253582
9004253580
9789067183802
9067183806
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-169) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"From 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curaçao, a small but strategically located Dutch colony just off the South American continent. A combination of internal and external factors produced these uprisings, in which free and enslaved islanders participated with various objectives. A major slave revolt in August 1795 was the opening salvo for these tumultuous five years. While this revolt is a well-known episode in Curaçaoan history, its wider Caribbean and Atlantic context is much less known. Also lacking are studies sketching a clear picture of the turbulent five years that followed. It is in these dark corners that this volume aims to shed light. The events discussed in this book fall squarely within the Age of Revolutions, the period that began with the onset of the American Revolution in 1775, was punctuated by the demise of the ancient régime in France, saw the establishment of a black state in Haiti, and witnessed the collapse of Spanish rule in mainland America. All of these revolutions seemed to converge by the late eighteenth century in Curaçao. The seven contributions in this volume provide new insights in the nature of slave resistance in the Age of Revolutions, the remarkable flows of people and ideas in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the unique local history of Curaçao. Wim Klooster is Associate Professor at Clark University in Worcester (MA), USA. His most recent book is Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009). Gert Oostindie is Director of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Professor of History at Leiden University"--Publisher's description.
Other form:Print version: Curaçao in the age of revolutions, 1795-1800. Leiden : KITLV Press, 2011 9789067183802
Standard no.:10.1163/9789004253582
Table of Contents:
  • Slave resistance, colour lines, and the impact of the French and Haitian revolutions in Curaçao / Gert Oostindie
  • Slave rebellion during the Age of Revolution / David Geggus
  • The rising expectations of free and enslaved blacks in the greater Caribbean / Wim Klooster
  • Inter-colonial networks and revolutionary ferment in eighteenth-century Curaçao and Tierra Firme / Linda M. Rupert
  • Revolution and politics in Venezuela and Curaçao, 1795-1800 / Ramón Aizpurua
  • The patriot coup d'état in Curaçao, 1796 / Karwan Fatah-Black
  • Patriots, privateers and international politics: the myth of the conspiracy of Jean Baptiste Tierce C / adet / Han Jordaan.

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