Facing racial revolution
Subtitle: eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection
By: Jeremy D. Popkin [editor].
Contributors: Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226675824; 9780226675831
Subjects: Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Personal narratives
Genres: Personal narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming a slavemaster; title: The Ogé Insurrection; title: The first days of the slave insurrection; title: A poet in the midst of insurrection : Amon Odyssée; title: An expedition against the insurgents in November 1791; title: Inside the insurgency : Gross Historick recital; title: Prisoners of the insurgents in 1792; title: Fighting and atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793; title: Masters and their slaves during the insurrection; title: The destruction of Cap Français in June 1793; title: A colonist at sea, 1793; title: Imagining the motives behind the insurrection; title: A colonist among the Spanish and the British; title: A white captive in the struggle against the Leclerc Expedition; title: A family reunion and a religious conversion; title: A woman's view of the last days of Cap Français; title: A child's memories of the last days of Saint-Domingue; title: A survivor of Dessalines's massacres in 1804; title: The story of the last French survivors in Saint-Domingue.