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Facing racial revolution : eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection /
Along with the American and French revolutions, the birth of Haiti in 1804 helped shape the modern world. The powerful, moving and sometimes troubling testimonies collected in 'Facing Racial Revolution' seek to expand the reader's understanding of this momentous event and how it relat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
[2007]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Becoming a slavemaster
- The Ogé Insurrection
- The first days of the slave insurrection
- A poet in the midst of insurrection : Mon Odyssée
- An expedition against the insurgents in November 1791
- Inside the insurgency : Gross Historick recital
- Prisoners of the insurgents in 1792
- Fighting and atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793
- Masters and their slaves during the insurrection
- The destruction of Cap Français in June 1793
- A colonist at sea, 1793
- Imagining the motives behind the insurrection
- A colonist among the Spanish and the British
- A white captive in the struggle against the Leclerc Expedition
- A family reunion and a religious conversion
- A woman's view of the last days of Cap Français
- A child's memories of the last days of Saint-Domingue
- A survivor of Dessalines's massacres in 1804
- The story of the last French survivors in Saint-Domingue.