Screen LibraryYou are all free：the Haitian revolution and the abolition of slavery
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 422 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521517225 (hardback) 0521517222 (hardback) 9780521731942 (pbk.) 0521731941 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | K752 |
| CLC: | K752.41 |
| Call Number: | K752.41/P828 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: the journee of 20 June 1793 in Cap Francʹais and the abolition of slavery -- 1. A colony in revolution -- 2. Municipal revolution in a colonial city -- 3. French Jacobins and Saint-Domingue colonists -- 4. Creating revolutionary government in the tropics -- 5. A model republican general -- 6. The powder keg explodes -- 7. Freedom and fire -- 8. The road to general emancipation -- 9. Saint-Domingue in the United States -- 10. The decree of 16 Pluviose An II -- Conclusion. "The abolitions of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the first dramatic blows against an institution that had shaped the Atlantic world for three centuries and affected the lives of millions of people. Based on extensive archival research, You Are All Free provides the first complete account of the dramatic events that led to these epochal decrees, and also to the destruction of Cap Francais, the richest city in the French Caribbean, and to the first refugee crisis in the United States. Taking issue with earlier accounts |