Making Haiti Saint Domingue Revolution from Below

Name: Making Haiti Saint Domingue Revolution from Below
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ISBN: 9780870496677

ISBN-10: 0870496670

ISBN-13: 9780870496677

Edition: 1991

Authors: Carolyn E. Fick

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In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the wealthiest and most flourishing of the Caribbean slave colonies, its economy based on the forced labor of more than half a million black slaves raided from their African homelands. The revolt of this underclass in 1791—the only successful slave rebellion in history—gained the slaves their freedom and set in motion the colony's struggle for independence as the black republic of Haiti.In this pioneering study, Carolyn E. Fick argues that the repressed and uneducated slaves were the principal architects both of their own freedom and of the successful movement toward national independence. Fick identifies "marronage," the act of being a…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Publication date: 2/22/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.96" wide x 9.19" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English