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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize!
In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only 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 they created their own New World identity in the years from 1760 to 1804.
In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only 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 they created their own New World identity in the years from 1760 to 1804.
- GenresHistoryFranceNonfiction
407 pages, Hardcover
First published June 25, 2006
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May 30, 2016
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.
July 8, 2012
A historian's history book. Interesting but very heavy on primary sources
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