Description
Book SynopsisDefinitive work on one of the most consequential events in the history of Atlantic slavery
Trade Review[A] rich sample of recent work on colonial and revolutionary Haiti, and on the revolution's impact in the broader Atlantic world, in a format both accessible to a wide academic audience and of import and interest to specialists.vol. 85 no. 1 & 2 (2011)
* New West Indian Guide *
Eighteen articles range from studies about Saint-Domingue on the eve of the 1791 slave insurrection to the transition from emancipation to the permanent break with France in 1804, and, finally, to the reverberations of the island's events upon other slave societies and upon fiction, the fine arts, and the craft of history. . . . Highly recommendedJanuary 2010
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Table of ContentsContents
Foreword
Preface
Part I : Saint-Domingue on the Eve of Revolution: Politics and Economics
1. The Colony of Saint-Domingue on the Eve of Revolution David Geggus
2. Vestiges of the Built Landscape of Pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue Jacques de Cauna
3. Saint-Domingue's Free People of Color and the Tools of Revolution John Garrigus
4. On the Road to Citizenship: The Complex Paths toward the Integration of Free People of Color in the Two Capitals of Saint-Domingue Dominique Rogers
5. Colonial Absolutism: Politics in Principle and Practice in the Old Regime Gene Ogle
Part II: Unfolding of the Slave Revolution
6. The Insurgents of 1791, their Leaders, and the Concept of Independence Yves Benot
7. Avenging America: The Politics of Violence in the Haitian Revolution Laurent Dubois
8. Fêtes de l'hymen, fêtes de la liberté: Matrimony, Emancipation, and the Creation of New Men Elizabeth Colwill
9. The Colonial Vendée Malick Ghachem
10. The Slave Revolution and the Unfolding of Independence in Saint-Domingue, 1801-1804
Part III: Reverberations Carolyn Fick
11. The French Revolution's Other Island: The Impact of Saint-Domingue on Revolutionary Politics in France Jeremy Popkin
12. Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, 1791-1812 Ada Ferrer
13. Exiles in the United States Ashli White
14. Free Upon Higher Ground: Saint-Domingue Slaves' Suits for Freedom in U. S. Courts, 1792-1830 Sue Peabody
15. Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil João José Reis and Flavio Gomes
Part IV: Representations of the Revolution
16. The Specter of Saint-Domingue: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the United States and France Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
17. Representations of the Haitian Revolution in French Fiction Léon-François Hoffmann
18. Neo-Classicism and the Haitian Revolution Carlo Célius
Afterword
Index
