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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Revolution, Emancipation, and Independence | |
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| The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Revolution Begins, 1789-1791 | |
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| From Slave Revolution to Emancipation, 1791-1794 | |
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| Defining Emancipation, 1794-1798 | |
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| The Haitian Revolution and the United States | |
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| War and Independence | |
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| The Legacy of the Haitian Revolution | |
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| Major Revolutionary Figures and Groups | |
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| The Documents | |
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| The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Code Noir, 1685 | |
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| Prophesies of Slave Revolution, 1771 and 1780 | |
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| Mederic-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery, Description ... of the French Part of the Island of Saint-Domingue, 1797 | |
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| The Revolution Begins, 1789-1791 | |
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| Letters from the Slave Revolt in Martinique, August-September 1789 | |
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| The Free Citizens of Color, Address to the National Assembly, October 22, 1789 | |
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| The National Assembly, Decree of March 8 and Instructions of March 28, 1790 | |
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| Abbe Gregoire, Letter to Those Who Love Mankind, October 1790 | |
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| Letters from the Uprising of Vincent Oge, October 1790 | |
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| Julien Raimond, Observations on the Origin and Progression of the White Colonists' Prejudice against Men of Color, 1791 | |
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| The Debate of May 15, 1791 | |
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| The National Assembly, Law on the Colonies, 1791 | |
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| From Slave Revolution to Emancipation, 1791-1794 | |
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| Herard Dumesle, Voyage to the North of Haiti, 1824 | |
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| Antoine Dalmas, History of the Revolution of Saint-Domingue, 1814 | |
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| Pierre Mossut, Letter to the Marquis de Gallifet, September 19, 1791 | |
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| Philadelphia General Advertiser, Reports from the Insurrection, October-November 1791 | |
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| Jean-Francois and Biassou, Letters to the Commissioners, December 1791 | |
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| Gros, In the Camps of the Insurgents, 1791 | |
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| Olympe de Gouges, Preface to The Slavery of the Blacks, 1792 | |
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| Jean-Paul Marat, From The Friend of the People, 1792 | |
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| Thomas Clarkson, The True State of the Case, Respecting the Insurrection at St. Domingo, 1792 | |
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| The National Assembly, Law of April 4, 1792 | |
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| Journal Republicain de la Guadeloupe, Account of the Slave Revolt, April 24, 1793 | |
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| Laurent Jolicoeur, Petition, 1793 | |
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| Leger Felicite Sonthonax, Decree of General Liberty, August 29, 1793 | |
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| Insurgent Responses to Emancipation, 1793 | |
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| The National Convention, The Abolition of Slavery, February 4, 1794 | |
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| Defining Emancipation, 1794-1798 | |
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| Victor Hugues, Proclamations, 1794 | |
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| Genevieve Labothiere Secures Her Brother's Freedom, 1796-1801 | |
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| The Plantation Policies of Etienne Polverel, 1794 | |
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| Jean-Baptiste Belley, The True Colors of the Planters, or the System of the Hotel Massiac, Exposed by Gouli, 1795 | |
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| Toussaint Louverture, A Refutation of Some Assertions in a Speech Pronounced in the Corps Legislatif ... by Vienot Vaublanc, 1797 | |
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| The Council of the Five Hundred, Law on the Colonies, 1798 | |
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| Etienne Laveaux, A Celebration of the Anniversary of Abolition, 1798 | |
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| The Haitian Revolution and the United States | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Letters, 1797-1802 | |
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| Refugees in Charleston, S.C., Petition, October 25, 1799 | |
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| Charles Brockden Brown, St. Domingo, December 1804 | |
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| War and Independence | |
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| Toussaint Louverture, From Constitution of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, 1801 | |
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| Louis Delgres, Proclamation, 1802 | |
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| General Jean-Francois-Xavier de Menard, On the Final Stand of Delgres, 1802 | |
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| Napoleon Bonaparte and General Charles-Victor-Emmanuel Leclerc, Letters, 1802-1803 | |
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| Mary Hassal, From Secret History; or the Horrors of St. Domingo, 1808 | |
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| Marie-Rose Masson, Letter to the Marquis de Gallifet, July 27, 1802 | |
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| Brigadier General Pierre Cange, Letter to Delpech, November 1802 | |
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| The Haitian Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804 | |
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| The Haitian Constitution, 1805 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| A Chronology of Events Related to the Slave Revolution in the Caribbean (1635-1805) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |