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Title

The Haitian Revolution : a documentary history / edited and translated, with an introduction, by David Geggus.

Author

Geggus, David Patrick

Publication

Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2014]

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Description

xxxviii, 212 pages : map; 22 cm

Summary

"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution. The translations are lively and colorful."--Alyssa Sepinwall

Subjects

• Slavery
• Haiti
• Early works
• Slavery > Haiti > History > 18th century
• Haiti > History > To 1791
• 1700-talet
• History
• To 1804
• Haiti > Colonization > History
• Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Sources
• Sources
• Slavery > Dominican Republic > Santo Domingo > Early works to 1800
• Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804)

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Timeline -- Map -- Saint Domingue on the eve of revolution : Greed and decadence ; The plantation hierarchy ; A slave trader's view ; Plantation slaves ; The Lejeune atrocity case ; Racial discrimination: official ; Racial discrimination: unofficial -- Slave resistance : Satirical song ; Urban slave culture: report of the Chamber of Agriculture ; Macandal the poisoner ; Vodou and petro ; Vodou and the underworld ; Prophet of crook?: The real Don Pedro ; Slaves on strike ; Day-to-day resistance on a mountain plantation ; Runaway advertisements -- The race and slavery questions in the French National Assembly : The Enlightenment, race, and slavery ; The founding of the Friends of the Blacks ; Fear of emancipation and revolt ; A free man of color's complaints ; Free people of color organize ; The Abbé Grégoire's violent rhetoric ; Ogé addresses the Planter's Club ; Support from the provincial Jacobin Clubs ; The May 1791 debates -- The fight for racial equality in Saint Domingue : Early atrocities ; Free coloreds petition the Assembly of the North ; The rebellion of Ogé and Chavanne ; The sentencing of Ogé and Chavanne ; The August 1791 rising in the west ; The peace treaty of 19-23 October 1791 ; Call to arms of the free men of color -- The slave insurrection : Slaves' reaction to the French Revolution ; Planning the rebellion: the Lenormand meeting ; The Bois Caïman ceremony ; The uprising begins ; The slave insurents make demands ; A White captive's experiences ; The slave leaders negotiate ; The negotiations break down ; Women in rebellion ; Arming slaves: the Caïmittes rebellion ; Black tactics, White responses -- Slave emancipation : The colonists fear of Sonthonax, September 1792 ; Sonthonax's early advocacy of slave emancipation ; Abolitionist reaction to the slave insurrection ; Spain's offer to the insurgent slaves ; The emancipation proclamation of 29 August 1793 ; The Black auxiliaries of Carlos IV ; Royalism, republicanism, and freedom ; France abolishes slavery ; Belley, the Black deputy ; The Fort Dauphin massacre -- The rise of Toussaint Louverture : Toussaint's early life ; Toussaint the royalist ; Toussaint the abolitionist ; Rivalry with Biassou ; Toussaint and Laveaux ; Toussaint and the ex-slaves ; A British soldier's diary ; The fall of Port-au-Prince, May 1798 ; The expulsion of Sonthonax -- The government of Toussaint Louverture : Toussaint confronts his critics ; Toussaint and agent Hédouville ; The war of the south ; Plantation labor in the southeast ; Toussaint's labor decree ; A British visitor ; Roume's praise for the cultivators ; A colonist's complaints ; Toussaint Louverture's constitution, July 1801 ; Moyse's rebellion ; Proclamation, 4 Frimaire X -- The war of independence : Bonaparte on slave emancipation ; General Leclerc and the restoration of slavery ; Toussaint in captivity ; U.S. newspaper reports ; Collaboration and revolt ; Atrocities ; The Declaration of Independence, 1 January 1804 ; Dessaline's proclamation, 28 April 1804 -- Overseas reactions : Jamaican slaves ; Popular heroes in Cuba ; Troublesome migrants in Puerto Rico ; Jamaican song ; Venezuelan song ; Brazilian militiamen ; Aponte's rebellion, Cuba ; Danger and opportunity ; Greed and fear in Cuba ; "Rights of Black men": Abraham Bishop, 1791 ; Hispaniola, a poem / Samuel Whitchurch ; An anguished Thomas Jefferson ; Simón Bolívar: the disillusioned idealist ; The impact of independence ; Charles Brockden Brown: the Haitian peril, abolition, and race ; Race and barbarism: an early historian ; " To Toussaint L'Ouverture" / William Wordsworth ; Lecture on Haiti / Frederick Douglass.

Call Number

Sc D 19-518

ISBN

• 9780872208650
• 0872208656
• 9780872208667
• 0872208664
• 9781624661754
• 1624661750
• 9781624661761
• 1624661769

LCCN

2014006053

OCLC

876140560

Author

Geggus, David Patrick, author.

Title

The Haitian Revolution : a documentary history / edited and translated, with an introduction, by David Geggus.

Publisher

Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chronological Term

To 1804

1700-talet

Research Call Number

Sc D 19-518

JFD 14-4835