123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Caribbean Studies Committee: Revolutions, Rebellions, and Uprisings: 300 Years of Caribbean History

Conference on Latin American History 39

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Park Suite 2 (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Sarah L. Franklin, University of Southern Mississippi

Commentator:

Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

The Coming Storm: The Events of History and the St. John Revolt of 1733
James Dator, University of Michigan

"The Bourbon’s Most Loyal and Humblest Servants": French Royalists in the Lesser Antilles and the Hispanic Caribbean in Times of Revolution, 1790–95
Alejandro Gómez, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Toussaint Louverture and the Failure of the 1799 French Plans for a Slave Uprising in Jamaica
Philippe R. Girard, McNeese State University

"Their Coats Were Tied Up Like Men”: Women in Antigua’s 1858 Uprising
Natasha J. Lightfoot, Columbia University

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the 1950 Uprising
Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

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