Tides of Freedom: Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean, 1793-1798

Tides of Freedom is a two-sided game – that is for two players or two teams – set in the European colonies of the Eastern Caribbean from 1793 to 1798. It pits the Revolution against the Counter-Revolution.

The Revolution is a multi-ethnic coalition comprised of French Republicans; free people of African or mixed African-European descent demanding equality; maroons and indigenous Kalinago trying to escape or resist the plantation system; and, most significantly of all, people of African descent fighting for their freedom. It is opposed by the forces of the Counter-Revolution: European enslavers, colonial planters and merchants, including French Royalists seeking to maintain the status quo of White supremacism, racial slavery and the plantation economy, all backed by the forces of the British Army and the Royal Navy, including the men of African descent they recruited. Each side vies for control over a series of Caribbean colonies, the Revolution by spreading Liberty, the Counter-Revolution by spreading Order.