Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Haitian Revolution Part 3: No Longer Slaves
Revolution begins in earnest in Saint-Domingue as the colony's massive slave population rises up and takes vengeance into their own hands. Faced with the complete collapse of the old order, the whites and the free people of color attempt to come to an understanding.
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Bibliography
Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: the Story of the Haitian Revolution. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Dubois, Laurent. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. Metropolitan Books, 2012
Fick, Carolyn. The Making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. The University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
Geggus, David. The Haitian Revolution: a Documentary History. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2014.
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Vintage Books, 1989.
Cover Image: Battle of Santo Domingo (also known as Battle of Palm Tree Hill) painting by Polish artist January Suchodolski, 1845.
Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák.
Closing Theme: "Ogou Feray" by Racine Mapou de Azor.
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