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You are all free : the Haitian Revolution and the abolition of slavery
"The abolitions of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the first dramatic blows against an institution that had shaped the Atlantic world for three centuries and affected the lives of millions of people. Based on extensive ar...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | You are all free : the Haitian Revolution and the abolition of slavery / Jeremy D. Popkin,... |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
, cop. 2010 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XV-422 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- Introduction: the journée of 20 June 1793 in Cap Français and the abolition of slavery
- 1. A colony in revolution
- 2. Municipal revolution in a colonial city
- 3. French Jacobins and Saint-Domingue colonists
- 4. Creating revolutionary government in the tropics
- 5. A model republican general
- 6. The powder keg explodes
- 7. Freedom and fire
- 8. The road to general emancipation
- 9. Saint-Domingue in the United States
- 10. The decree of 16 Pluviôse An II
- Conclusion