Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue

by John D. Garrigus

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti, Latin America's first independent nation, through an uprising by slaves and the largest and wealthiest free population of people of African descent in the New World. Garrigus explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they shaped a new 'American' identity.

Genres: History, France, Nonfiction

396 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 2006

Reviews

[MB · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for my family history search. This book would be interesting to someone whose family identifies as free-blacks living in St. Domingue prior to the revolution. It mentions that similar life style may have been experienced in Martinique and Guadeloupe, other French colonies of the time.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

A historian's history book. Interesting but very heavy on primary sources