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Title: Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois ISBN: 0-674-01304-2 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good new account
Comment: Although this book excuses and uses moral relativism to explain the violence of the rebellion it nevertheless succeeds in explaining and documenting the slave revolt of 1871 against the French the subsequent victory, the first of its kind by slaves, against the Europeans. Decidedly American in nature, although the author argues it was inspired by the French revolution, the Haitian revolt against both Spain and against England and Spain helped create the second independent republic in the Americas. Toussaint, the leader, became a folk hero and the consequences reverberated all across the Americas, as images of slaves putting their masters to death were scene in the daily papers. Of course the most important political implications is that the Haitian rebellion ended Napoleonic hopes for an expanding empire in the Americas.
This is an important analysis and account of the Haitian rebellion, interesting in light of the recent problems in Haiti, which has unfortunately become the poorest country in the Americas, in direct opposition to its American neighbor who gained independence a mere dozen years prior.
Seth J. Frantzman
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Title: A Colony of Citizins: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 by Laurent Dubois ISBN: 0807855367 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (NATHAN I HUGGINS LECTURES) by David Brion Davis ISBN: 0674011821 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration by Steven Hahn ISBN: 0674011694 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James ISBN: 0679724672 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter, Simon Schama ISBN: 0393050750 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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