In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. 'Before Haiti' explains theorigins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members both supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they created their own New World identity from 1760 to 1804. JOHN D.GARRIGUS Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. INDICE: The Development of Creole Society on the Colonial Frontier - Race and Class in Creole Society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s - Freedom, Slavery, and the French Colonial State - Reform and Revolt after the Seven Years War - Citizenship and Racism in the New Republic Sphere - The Rising Economic Power of Free People in Color in the 1780s - Proving Free Colored Virtue - Free People of Color in the Southern Peninsula and the Origins of the Haitain Revolution- Revolution and Republicanism in Aquin Parish
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10837-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 410
- Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido