Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue

by John D. Garrigus

Book Overview

Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. When the Haitian Revolution broke out, the colony was home to the largest and wealthiest free population of African descent in the New World. Before Haiti explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members both supported...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230108377
• ISBN13: 9780230108370
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"