Before Haiti
Subtitle: Race And Citizenship in French Saint-domingue (The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781403971401
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Revolutions & coups; Slavery & emancipation; c 1700 to c 1800; Racially mixed people; History; History - General History; History: World; Haiti; Racism; Caribbean & West Indies - General; History / Caribbean & West Indies; Blacks
Description: "In 1804, French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the most successful slave uprising in world history. When the Haitian Revolution broke out, the colony was home to the largest and wealthiest free population of African descent in the New World. Before Haiti explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members both supported and challenged slavery, and examines how that created their own New World identity from 1760 to 1804"--Jacket.