Before Haiti race and citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
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.
History
1 v. (X-396 p.) : cartes. ; 22 cm
9781403971401, 1403971404
690382111
The development of creole society on the colonial frontier
Race and class in creole society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s
Freedom, slavery, and the French colonial state
Reform and revolt after the seven years' war
Citizenship and racism in the new public sphere
The rising economic power of free people of color in the 1780s
Proving free colored virtue
Free people of color in the Southern peninsula and the origins of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1791
Revolution and republicanism in Aquin Parish