Maroon Nation a history of revolutionary Haiti / Johnhenry Gonzalez

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Johnhenry, author.

Series:

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804).

Peasants.

Economic history.

Land tenure.

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

Haiti.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Press [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

One. The Maroon Nation Thesis

Two. The Revolutionary Period, 1791-1804

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

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

Five. The Land Question and the Triumph of the Haitian Republic

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

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-300-24555-6 9780300245554

OCLC:

1103320483