The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution. The translations are lively and colorful." --Alyssa Sepinwall, California State University San Marcos |
Contents
1 SAINT DOMINGUE ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION | 1 |
1 Greed and Decadence | 3 |
2 The Plantation Hierarchy | 4 |
3 A Slave Traders View | 6 |
4 Plantation Slaves | 7 |
5 The Lejeune Atrocity Case | 10 |
Official | 12 |
Unofficial | 14 |
50 Royalism Republicanism and Freedom | 111 |
51 France Abolishes Slavery | 112 |
53 The Fort Dauphin Massacre 7 July 1794 | 114 |
7 THE RISE OF TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE | 117 |
54 Toussaints Early Life | 120 |
55 Toussaint the Royalist | 122 |
56 Toussaint the Abolitionist | 123 |
57 Rivalry with Biassou | 126 |
2 SLAVE RESISTANCE | 15 |
8 Satirical Song | 17 |
10 Macandal the Poisoner | 19 |
11 Vodou and Petro | 20 |
12 Vodou and the Underworld | 22 |
13 Prophet or Crook? The Real Don Pedro | 24 |
14 Slaves on Strike | 25 |
15 DaytoDay Resistance on a Mountain Plantation | 29 |
16 Runaway Advertisements | 33 |
3 THE RACE AND SLAVERY QUESTIONS IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY | 36 |
17 The Enlightenment Race and Slavery | 39 |
18 The Founding of the Friends of the Blacks | 40 |
19 Fear of Emancipation and Revolt | 43 |
20 A Free Man of Colors Complaints | 44 |
21 Free People of Color Organize | 46 |
22 The Abbé Grégoires Violent Rhetoric | 47 |
23 Ogé Addresses the Planters Club | 48 |
24 Support from the Provincial Jacobin Clubs | 50 |
25 The May 1791 Debates | 51 |
4 THE FIGHT FOR RACIAL EQUALITY IN SAINT DOMINGUE | 57 |
26 Early Atrocities | 59 |
27 Free Coloreds Petition the Assembly of the North 10 November 1789 | 61 |
28 The Rebellion of Ogé and Chavanne | 62 |
29 The Sentencing of Ogé and Chavanne | 64 |
30 The August 1791 Rising in the West | 65 |
31 The Peace Treaty of 1923 October 1791 | 68 |
32 Call to Arms of the Free Men of Color late November 1791 | 70 |
5 THE SLAVE INSURRECTION | 72 |
33 Slaves Reaction to the French Revolution | 75 |
The Lenormand Meeting | 77 |
35 The Bois Caïman Ceremony | 78 |
36 The Uprising Begins | 79 |
37 The Slave Insurgents Make Demands | 82 |
38 A White Captives Experiences | 83 |
39 The Slave Leaders Negotiate | 86 |
40 The Negotiations Break Down | 89 |
41 Women in Rebellion | 91 |
The Caïmittes Rebellion | 93 |
43 Black Tactics White Responses | 94 |
6 SLAVE EMANCIPATION | 98 |
44 The Colonists Fear of Sonthonax September 1792 | 101 |
45 Sonthonaxs Early Advocacy of Slave Emancipation | 102 |
47 Spains Offer to the Insurgent Slaves | 105 |
48 The Emancipation Proclamation of 29 August 1793 | 107 |
49 The Black Auxiliaries of Carlos IV | 109 |
58 Toussaint and Laveaux | 128 |
59 Toussaint and the ExSlaves | 129 |
60 A British Soldiers Diary | 132 |
61 The Fall of PortauPrince May 1798 | 133 |
62 The Expulsion of Sonthonax | 135 |
8 THE GOVERNMENT OF TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE | 139 |
63 Toussaint Confronts His Critics | 143 |
64 Toussaint and Agent Hédouville | 146 |
65 The War of the South | 148 |
66 Plantation Labor in the Southeast | 151 |
67 Toussaints Labor Decree | 153 |
68 A British Visitor | 154 |
69 Roumes Praise for the Cultivators | 158 |
71 Toussaint Louvertures Constitution July 1801 | 160 |
72 Moyses Rebellion | 164 |
73 Proclamation 4 Frimaire X | 166 |
9 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE | 168 |
74 Bonaparte on Slave Emancipation | 171 |
75 General Leclerc and the Restoration of Slavery | 172 |
76 Toussaint in Captivity | 174 |
77 US Newspaper Reports | 175 |
78 Collaboration and Revolt | 176 |
79 Atrocities | 178 |
80 The Declaration of Independence 1 January 1804 | 179 |
81 Dessalines Proclamation 28 April 1804 | 180 |
10 OVERSEAS REACTIONS | 183 |
82 Jamaican Slaves 1791 | 186 |
84 Troublesome Migrants in Puerto Rico 1796 | 187 |
85 Jamaican Song 1799 | 188 |
87 Brazilian Militiamen 1805 | 189 |
The British Press 1791 | 191 |
90 Greed and Fear in Cuba | 192 |
Abraham Bishop 1791 | 193 |
92 Samuel Whitchurch Hispaniola a Poem 1804 | 194 |
93 An Anguished Thomas Jefferson | 195 |
The Disillusioned Idealist | 197 |
95 The Impact of Independence | 199 |
The Haitian Peril Abolition and Race | 200 |
An Early Historian | 201 |
98 William Wordsworth To Toussaint LOuverture | 202 |
99 Frederick Douglass Lecture on Haiti 1893 | 203 |
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Back Cover | 213 |
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abolitionist Africans anciens libres antislavery Archives Nationales arms army arrived August Biassou British brothers camp Cap Français Caribbean cause citizens of color civil commissioners Colonial Assembly colony’s commander Commissioner Sonthonax constitution creole declared decree defend deputies Dessalines Domingue’s Dondon enemies enslaved European fear fighting forced labor former slaves France France’s free coloreds freedom French Revolution Gonaïves governor Haiti Haitian Revolution Hédouville independence insurgents island Jean-François Julien Raimond killed king leaders Leclerc Léogane liberty Limbé Louverture’s maroon masters military months mountains Moyse mulattoes National Assembly Negroes North Province officers ofthe Ogé Paris parish peace Petit Goâve plantation planters political Port Margot Port-au-Prince punished racial radical Raimond rebel rebellion regime Republic Rigaud Rivière Saint Domingue Santo Domingo sent slave emancipation slave revolt slave trade slaveowners slavery soldiers Spain Spanish tion Toussaint Louverture town troops uprising Vincent Ogé Vodou white colonists women workforce