Haitian Revolutionary Studies

David Patrick Geggus

Description

An in-depth exploration of the Haitian Revolution.

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 Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence drawn from archival research in six countries. Geggus's fine-grained essays explore central issues and little-studied aspects of the conflict, including new historiography and sources, the origins of the black rebellion, and relations between slaves and free people of color. The contributions of vodou and marronage to the slave uprising, Toussaint Louverture and the abolition question, the policies of the major powers toward the revolution, and its interaction with the early French Revolution are also addressed. Questions about ethnicity, identity, and historical knowledge inform this essential study of a complex revolution.

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Overview
1. The Haitian Revolution
Part 2. Historiography and Sources
2. New Approaches and Old
3. Underexploited Sources
Part 3. The Seeds of Revolt
4. The Causation of Slave Rebellions: An Overview
5. Marronage, Vodou, and the Slave Revolt of 1791
6. The Bois Caïman Ceremony
Part 4. Slaves and Free Coloreds
7. The "Swiss" and the Problem of Slave/Free Colored Cooperation
8. The "Volte-Face" of Toussaint Louverture
9. Slave, Soldier, Rebel: The Strange Career of Jean Kina
Part 5. The Wider Revolution
10. Racial Equality, Slavery, and Colonial Secession during the Constituent Assembly
11. The Great Powers and the Haitian Revolution
12. The Slave Leaders in Exile: Spain's Resettlement of Its Black Auxiliary Troops
Part 6. Epilogue
13. The Naming of Haiti
Chronology
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Sujets

• West Indies
• Ethnic
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• América del Sur
• General officer
• Ethnic group
• South America
• Latin America
• History of the Americas
• African American
• Anthropology
• General
• Caribbean

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 12 août 2002
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253109262
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 40 Mo

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