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The cry of Vertières : liberation, memory, and the beginning of Haiti /
"This book tells the story of the Battle of Vertières, fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by Napoleon. The battle marked the culmination of a thirteen-year revolutionary struggle to end slav...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
| Publicado: |
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: To Arms, Citizens!
- 1 The Battle of Vertières or "The Destiny of a Memory"
- 2 The Final Act of an Atlantic Revolution
- 3 Attempt at Reconstruction
- 4 The History of a Word That Doesn't Really Exist
- 5 "The Last of the Whites"
- 6 "As Long as There's One Negro Left"
- 7 The Symbol of Haiti's Strength and Survival
- 8 A Recent Place of Memory
- 9 Picolet, Fossé Capois, Vertières: In the Footsteps of Ancestors
- Conclusion: The Cry of Capois-la-Mort