A secret among the blacks : slave resistance before the Haitian Revolution
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A secret among the blacks : slave resistance before the Haitian Revolution
Harvard University Press, 2023
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Slave resistance before the Haitian Revolution
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"John Garrigus provides a profound historical corrective, showing that enslaved Blacks in Saint-Domingue were hardly complacent before the Haitian Revolution. While scholars who have looked beyond the island's shores for the forces that inspired rebellion, Garrigus documents African resistance and political organizing decades before the 1791 revolt"--Provided by publisher
Contents of Works
- Médor's Town and Country Lives
- Médor's Medicines
- Poison and Panic
- Makandal, Congo Diviner
- An Epidemic of Their Own Making
- Makandal's Ghost
- The Haitian Revolution Begins
- Conclusion
