***I was granted an ARC of this via Netgalley from the publisher.***

The history of the Caribbean is rich, complicated and has been marked by interference by outside forces. The book Freedom Roots: Histories of the Caribbean by Laurent Dubois and Richard Lee Turtis explores this. The authors explore the colonial and post-colonial impact on the island. They discuss the importance of land ownership and how important it became to the development of the Caribbean. European and then the USA sought to control and profit from the land and its valuable crops and the clash between the wants of the people and the wants of outside interests determined the history of islands like Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. This is a very well written book. It relays its information in an engaging and succinct way. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about Caribbean history.

Rating: 4/5 stars. Would recommend to a friend