Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic During the Age of Revolution by James Epstein

Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic During the Age of Revolution

Critical Perspectives on Empire

James Epstein

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In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fasc...

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