ABSTRACT

French Revolutionary ideals, and who was later captured and executed. Second, during the Census Riots, or Guerre Ne`gre, in June 1844, free Dominicans, including labourers

from a plantation in Grand Bay called Geneva Estate, clashed with enumerators and later the militia and army, in response to rumours of impending re-enslavement.15

Applying an eventful analysis to conceptualize how these rebellions in Dominica are

understood using historical and archaeological evidence shows the overlap and clash of schemas over material culture that comes into stark contrast during rebellions.