The material as a whole shows how very rich the subject area is and how much room there is for additional research. The historical events that underlie all of the essays in the volume are ably and succinctly retold by the editor, Doris Kadish, in her introduction. Her concise historical overview of slavery in the French West Indies narrates the complex unfolding of the slave revolts and the revolution in the French Caribbean.

—The Americas

The essays . . . cover disparate topics, but one theme binds them. Each scholar gives more emphasis to participants and their actions in bringing about events rather than to events themselves. Thus some papers focus on slaves' rebellions, especially in Martinique and in Haiti, where the proper term is revolution rather than rebellion. Other papers deal with abolitionist activity in France, runaway maroons in the French islands, emigrants from Haiti to the US, French Caribbean contributors to the US, slave identity, and Creole language. Until recently such topics, except for Creole linguistics, would have been the province of historians and historical anthropologists. This volume demonstrates that scholars of language and literature also enter the archives.

—Choice

Kadish's book queries intersections between Francophone Caribbean and U.S. history and explores the literary projects of Francophone Caribbean writers.

—Eighteenth-Century Studies

—International History Review