This 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. Some people fought to be left alone ungovernable and masterless. Other people
fought to free their ethnicity or race their class or their nation. Men and women employed a
range of tactics from violent armed uprisings to fleeing repression and starting their own
communities. Through song language religion and festivals they maintained cultures and
identities against oppressive norms that devalued or sought to destroy those cultures and
identities. People declared strikes and riots against economic oppression. Women and mothers
mobilized for their and their children's freedoms. Across the Caribbean people confronted
oppression and in so doing illustrated their humanity and agency.
