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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revol...more
Paperback, 357 pages
Published
October 1st 2005
by Belknap Press
(first published 2004)
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This book achieves exactly what its subtitle says: It outlines the "True Story of the Haitian Revolution" with just enough information about France's colonization of Hispaniola as is absolutely needed to understand the events that transpired between 1791 and 1804 and only a few broad comments about the impact the slave revolt and eventual revolution would have on the international community for the duration of the nineteenth century. Dubois aims, apparently, to create a popular history of the re...more
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas,...more
Jan 21, 2013
Purple Iris
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history-politics
more like 3.5, but I'm feeling generous. Also, I'm probably not the target audience in that some of the details just seemed unnecessary to me, but I'm thinking it's probably important for the historians.
This book was really a fascinating read. I started reading it at the same time as Ti dife boule sou istwa Ayiti and Dubois helped me better understand certain aspects of the Revolution I was still confused about after reading Trouillot.
I know there are many novels about the Revolution, some bet...more
This book was really a fascinating read. I started reading it at the same time as Ti dife boule sou istwa Ayiti and Dubois helped me better understand certain aspects of the Revolution I was still confused about after reading Trouillot.
I know there are many novels about the Revolution, some bet...more
Hispaniola was the first island in the New World discovered by Columbus; Spanish settlers soon slaughtered all the indigenous inhabitants, who called the island Ayiti, and imported Africans to be their slaves instead. After Louis XIV of France won a war with Spain and her allies, Spain ceded the western half of the island to France. In the 18th century the half-island became the most profitable colony in the New World, called Saint-Domingue, producing as much sugar as Cuba, Jamaica and Brazil co...more
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“The impact of the Haitian Revolution was enormous. As a unique example of successful black revolution, it became a crucial part of the political, philosophical, and cultural currenst of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a...more
“The impact of the Haitian Revolution was enormous. As a unique example of successful black revolution, it became a crucial part of the political, philosophical, and cultural currenst of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a...more
The Haitian Revolution is one of the most significant events in a period full of them. Dubois crafts an absorbing introduction to the complexities of this upheaval and makes a number of its issues feel quite contemporary.
Valuable insights into the Haitian Revolution, its dominant personalities, and the social and economic forces that shaped the revolution and its aftermath. Well written and comprehensively researched.
Jan 24, 2012
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I don't read many histories and when I do, it tends to take me a while to get through them. That said, after finishing a history book, I'm always glad that I persevered! I enjoyed learning more about the details of the Haitian Revolution, which I studied superficially in college as part of a wonderful class on Haitian literature, and found this history engagingly written and clear.
Mar 19, 2013
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For school, but an interesting read about a successful slave revolution.
A very readable and in-depth study of the Haitian revolution.
Amazing narrative.
eh.
I had high hopes for this book, however, it proved to be a dissapointment. I feel as though the author spends too much time on items which I found to be superficial, and then glosses over and rushes through items which I thought would have been of more relevance.
Illuminating read. This is such a grossly overlooked moment in history with incredibly complicated outcomes and implications for the entire Western world. And it is far from being resolved.
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“By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment in the history of democracy, one that laid the foundation for the continuing struggles for human rights everywhere. In this sense we are all descendents of the Haitain Revolution, and responsible to these ancestors.”
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