4 Formal Colonization: British Annexation, French Conquest, and Slave Revolts

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Maps ix
4. Preface xi
5. Theoretical Questions 3
6. Indigenous Peoples and Their Contact Experience 17
7. European Discovery and Settlement 34
8. Formal Colonization: British Annexation, French Conquest, and Slave Revolts 57
9. Slavery and Emancipation 79
10. A Dominican Peasantry 108
11. The Rise of the Mulatto Élite 124
12. Capitalizing a Subsistence Economy 140
13. Democracy: Bringing Decision Making Home 159
14. Four Hundred and Eighty-Five Years Later: Independence? 177
15. Some Additional Facts on Dominica 187
16. Notes 191
17. Bibliography 217
18. Index 241