A new history of the Age of Revolutions, from a Caribbean perspective. The Other French Revolution uncovers the Caribbean uprising that shocked the world before vanishing from memory. This revolution initially drew the attention of every major imperial power. Then, for centuries, only fragmented accounts of events in Grenada, Saint Vincent, Guadeloupe, and Saint Lucia persisted, while the full story of regionwide revolution was lost to time. Paul Friedland restores the larger whole, detailing how the radically new vision of a world without tyranny and slavery swept through the Windward Islands between 1794 and 1796. At the heart of The Other French Revolution is a vivid narrative of political imagination and collective struggle. African, European, and Indigenous participants, both free and enslaved, mobilized around the ideal of universal republicanism. Their hopes, shaped by local realities and emerging from dialogue with revolutionaries in France, were then crushed by a ruthless British campaign, abetted by French counter-revolutionaries. Determined not only to restore colonial rule but also to bury all memory of the uprising, the military response was merciless, marked by re-enslavement, exile, imprisonment, and execution. As many as a hundred thousand people may have died between the revolution’s beginnings and its bloody end. The very intensity of the repression underscores the scale and significance of the movement the colonizers sought to erase. Bringing light to a forgotten story of people who crossed the deepest divides to pursue a vision of humanity and liberty far ahead of its time, Friedland offers a fresh and compelling account of the Age of Revolutions. “Overturning long-held assumptions about how the French Revolution traveled abroad, bearing a surprise on nearly every page, Paul Friedland’s work is an utterly compelling rewrite of Caribbean-Atlantic history.” ― Christopher L. Miller, author of The French Atlantic Triangle “Deeply researched and rivetingly told, The Other French Revolution illuminates the revolutionary struggles that stretched across the Eastern Caribbean during the 1790s and early 1800s. Friedland vividly reconstructs the actions of a remarkable group of political actors and the fierce repression they faced. As he convincingly shows, the history of this region should be understood as an integral part of the Age of Revolutions in the Atlantic world.” ― Laurent Dubois, author of A Colony of Citizens “Based on extensive research in both French and British archives, this book represents a valuable contribution to the history of the age of revolution in the Caribbean. Friedland makes the compelling case that insurrections in Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, and Grenada constituted a single revolution in which francophone insurgents of different races united to establish a universal republic.” ― William Cormack, author of Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies Paul Friedland, Professor of French History at Cornell University, is the author of Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution and Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France .