Haitian Revolutionary Studies
Series: Blacks in the Diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780253341044
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Colonization & independence; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Revolutions & coups; c 1700 to c 1800; Caribbean Area - History; Slavery; History - General History; History: World; Haiti; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Sociology - General; History; Revolution, 1791-1804
First sentence: Racial equality, the abolition of slavery, decolonization, and nationhood first came to the Caribbean with the Haitian Revolution.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.