Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps vii
4. Tables ix
5. Preface xi
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. PART I: LATE 18TH CENTURY IMPERIALISMAND SLAVE SOCIETIES IN THE CARIBBEAN
8. 2. Island Geography: How Tiny Islands Can Be Economic, Social, and Political Systems 29
9. 3. Free Labor and Finance Capital on the Seas 57
10. 4. The Economic Demography of Plantation Islands 89
11. 5. Planter Power, Freedom, and Oppression of Slaves in the 18th Century Caribbean 125
12. 6. Race as a Social Boundary: Free Colored versus Slaves and Blacks 159
13. PART II: PATHS TO EMANCIPATION IN THE 19TH CENTURY
14. 7. The Politics of Empires, European Democratization, Emancipation, and Freedom 175
15. 8. French Revolutions and the Transformation of the French Empire 201
16. 9. The French Revolution in Haiti and Haitian Isolation in the 19th Century World System 231
17. 10. Establishing Monopolies in Free Labor Markets: Semi-Servile Labor in the British Islands 257
18. 11. Spanish Colonies: Caudillismo, a Split Cuba, and U.S. Intervention 286
19. 12. Conclusion: The Sociology of Freedom 319
20. Bibliography 333
21. Index 349