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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781009256148
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Book description

The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. The book fills an important gap in the existing literature on the Haitian Revolution. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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'Recommended.'

R. I. Rotberg Source: Choice

'This fantastic book will join and enliven recent work on what might be called the practical politics of economic thought.'

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Contents

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  • Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
    pp i-i
  • Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Collective Action in the African Diaspora
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Figures
    pp ix-x
  • Tables
    pp xi-xii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp xiii-xvi
  • Additional material
    pp xvii-xviii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-26
  • I - Homelands, Diaspora, and Slave Society
    pp 27-108
  • 1 - “We Have a False Idea of the Negro”: Legacies of Resistance and the African Past
    pp 29-65
  • 2 - In the Shadow of Death
    pp 66-108
  • II - Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Networks and Ties, Geographies and Space
    pp 109-240
  • 3 - “God knows what I do”: Ritual Free Spaces
    pp 111-146
  • 4 - Mobilizing Marronnage: Race, Collective Identity, and Solidarity
    pp 147-182
  • 5 - Marronnage as Reclamation
    pp 183-205
  • 6 - Geographies of Subversion: Maroons, Borders, and Empire
    pp 206-240
  • III - Collective Action and Revolution
    pp 241-300
  • 7 - “We Must Stop the Progress of Marronnage”: Repertoires and Repression
    pp 243-276
  • 8 - Voices of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution Begins
    pp 277-300
  • Conclusion
    pp 301-304
  • Notes
    pp 305-328
  • References
    pp 329-354
  • Index
    pp 355-360

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