Avengers of the New World The Story of the Haitian Revolution

Name: Avengers of the New World The Story of the Haitian Revolution
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ISBN: 9780674018266

ISBN-10: 0674018265

ISBN-13: 9780674018266

Edition: 2004

Authors: Laurent Dubois

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A Los Angeles Times 2004 Best Book of the Year A Christian Science Monitor 2004 Noteworthy Book of the Year The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. The slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the southern United States. "There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of books about the Haitian…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.21" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Prologue



Specters of Saint-Domingue



Fermentation



Inheritance



Fire in the Cane



New World



Defiance



Liberty's Land



The Opening



Power



Enemies of Liberty



Territory



The Tree of Liberty



Those Who Die


Epilogue: Out of the Ashes


Notes


Index