Introduction -- Recent scholarship on the Haitian Revolution. The uprisings, 1791-1793 -- Republican emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793-1798 -- Toussaint Louverture in power, 1798-1801 -- The struggle for independence, 1802-1806 -- Consolidating independence in a hostile world -- Afterword: the earthquake crisis of 2010 and the Haitian Revolution -- Recent scholarship on the Haitian Revolution.
Summary:
Describing the only successful slave revolt in world history, the newly revised Second Edition of A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution delivers a nuanced and rigorous treatment of the events of the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th century and early 19th century. The book describes events from the slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 and the emergence of its leader, Toussaint Louverture, to the declaration of independence by Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1804.
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