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Other 1898s
Working-Class Politics in the Postemancipation CaribbeanAnne Eller
Duke University Press, 2027
Other 1898s connects four histories from three islands to compose a portrait of working-class politics in the Caribbean in the late nineteenth century. After the legal end of slavery in the Americas, deepening imperialism and profound economic difficulty provoked debates over development, massive migration, and revolutionary projects. Piecing together and interpreting a fragmentary archive, decades into emancipation, Anne Eller recovers the rhythm of daily life, considers how Caribbean publics responded to the rising tide of colonial violence in Africa, and illustrates the growing influence of the United States throughout the Caribbean. Showing the interconnection of working-class movements in remote coasts, plantations, and growing cities, she details how communities found small political openings and achieved some hard-won victories. Rising market pressures engulfed every island. Eller reveals how, as political conflicts culminated in the fateful summer of 1898 and foreign warships circled, freedom contests across the Caribbean grew all the more urgent.
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We Dream Together
Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean FreedomAnne Eller
Duke University Press, 2016
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates Dominican nationhood to craft inclusive, popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance was anchored in a rich and complex political culture. Haitians and Dominicans fostered a common commitment to Caribbean freedom, the abolition of slavery, and popular democracy, often well beyond the reach of the state. By showing how the island's political roots are deeply entwined, and by contextualizing this history within the wider Atlantic world, Eller demonstrates the centrality of Dominican anticolonial struggles for understanding independence and emancipation throughout the Caribbean and the Americas.
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