Before Haiti : race and citizenship in French Saint-Domingue / John D. Garrigus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrigus, John D.

Series:

Americas in early modern Atlantic world.

The Americas in early modern Atlantic world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people.

History.

Multiracial people.

Racism.

Haiti--Politics and government--To 1791.

Haiti.

Politics and government.

Racism--Haiti--History.

Multiracial people--Haiti--History.

Black people--Haiti--History.

Haiti--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

x, 396 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 The Development of Creole Society on the Colonial Frontier 21

2 Race and Class in Creole Society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s 51

3 Freedom, Slavery, and the French Colonial State 83

4 Reform and Revolt after the Seven Years' War 109

5 Citizenship and Racism in the New Public Sphere 141

6 The Rising Economic Power of Free People of Color in the 1780s 171

7 Proving Free Colored Virtue 195

8 Free People of Color in the Southern Peninsula and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1791 227

9 Revolution and Republicanism in Aquin Parish 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-380) and index.

ISBN:

1403971404

OCLC:

65065092

Publisher Number:

9781403971401

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