The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from BelowUniv. of Tennessee Press, 1990 - 355 pagina's 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. |
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Slavery and Slave Society | 15 |
Slaves in the North | 91 |
The Mulattoes and the Free Blacks | 118 |
PortSalut to Les Platons | 137 |
The Blacks React to Freedom | 157 |
From Freedom to Civil | 183 |
From Civil War to Independence | 204 |
46 | 219 |
APPENDIX | 251 |
APPENDIX C | 267 |
91 | 275 |
118 | 284 |
157 | 312 |
183 | 323 |
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Conclusion | 237 |