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Haitian revolutionary studies / David Patrick Geggus.

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The Haitian Revolution of 1789--1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Geggus, David Patrick (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2002.
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804.
Haiti.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The Haitian revolution
  • New approaches and old
  • Underexploited sources
  • The causation of slave rebellions : an overview
  • Marronage, vodou, and the slave revolt of 1791
  • The Bois Caïman ceremony
  • The "Swiss" and the problem of slave/free colored cooperation
  • The "volte-face" of Toussaint Louverture
  • Slave, soldier, rebel : the strange career of Jean Kina
  • Racial equality, slavery, and colonial secession during the constituent assembly
  • The great powers and the Haitian revolution
  • The slave leaders in exile : Spain's resettlement of its black auxiliary troops
  • The naming of Haiti.

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