Maroon nation : a history of revolutionary Haiti / Johnhenry Gonzalez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Johnhenry, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants.

History.

Land tenure.

Economic conditions.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.

Haiti.

Haiti--History--1804-.

Haiti--Economic conditions--19th century.

Land tenure--Haiti--History.

Peasants--Haiti--History.

Physical Description:

xii, 302 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country's early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent Haiti focused on crop production, land reform, and the unauthorized rural settlements devised by former slaves of the colonial plantation system. Analyzing the country's turbulent transition from the most profitable and exploitative slave colony of the eighteenth century to a relatively free society of small farmers, Gonzalez narrates the origins of institutions such as informal open-air marketplaces and rural agrarian compounds known as lakou. Drawing on seldom-studied primary sources to contribute to a growing body of early Haitian scholarship, he argues that Haiti's legacy of runaway communities and land conflict was as formative as the Haitian Revolution in developing the country's characteristic agrarian, mercantile, and religious institutions. -- publisher's website.

Contents:

The Maroon Nation Thesis

The Revolutionary Period, 1791-1804

Despotism and Forced Labor: Dessalines and the State-Directed Plantation Economy

Echoes of the Revolution: Rebellion and Civil War in Early Haiti

The Land Question and the Triumph of the Haitian Republic

The Maroon Economy: Subsistence Production, Cash Crops, and Tax Evasion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780300230086

0300230087

OCLC:

1055264747