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An islandwide struggle for freedom : revolution, emancipation, and reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809 / Graham T. Nessler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469626888
  • 9781469626871
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HT1081 .I853 2016
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Contents:
The courage to conquer their natural liberty: conflicts over emancipation in French Santo Domingo, 1795-1801 -- Santo Domingo and the rise of Toussaint Louverture, 1795-1801 -- Uprooting the tree of liberty: Toussaint Louverture in Santo Domingo, 1801-1802 -- The shame of the nation: the force of reenslavement and the law of slavery under the regime of Ferrand, 1804-1809 -- They always knew her to be free: archiving liberty in French Santo Domingo, 1804-1809.
Summary: Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic. Nessler argues that the territories' borders and governance were often unclear and mutually influential.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

I am the king of the counter-revolution: revolution and emancipation in Hispaniola, 1789-1795 -- The courage to conquer their natural liberty: conflicts over emancipation in French Santo Domingo, 1795-1801 -- Santo Domingo and the rise of Toussaint Louverture, 1795-1801 -- Uprooting the tree of liberty: Toussaint Louverture in Santo Domingo, 1801-1802 -- The shame of the nation: the force of reenslavement and the law of slavery under the regime of Ferrand, 1804-1809 -- They always knew her to be free: archiving liberty in French Santo Domingo, 1804-1809.

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic. Nessler argues that the territories' borders and governance were often unclear and mutually influential.

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