Facing racial revolution eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection / [electronic resource] : Jeremy D. Popkin [editor]. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xv, 400 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-390) and index.

Becoming a slavemaster -- The Ogé Insurrection -- The first days of the slave insurrection -- A poet in the midst of insurrection : Amon Odyssée -- An expedition against the insurgents in November 1791 -- Inside the insurgency : Gross Historick recital -- Prisoners of the insurgents in 1792 -- Fighting and atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793 -- Masters and their slaves during the insurrection -- The destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 -- A colonist at sea, 1793 -- Imagining the motives behind the insurrection -- A colonist among the Spanish and the British -- A white captive in the struggle against the Leclerc Expedition -- A family reunion and a religious conversion -- A woman's view of the last days of Cap Français -- A child's memories of the last days of Saint-Domingue -- A survivor of Dessalines's massacres in 1804 -- The story of the last French survivors in Saint-Domingue.


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Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Personal narratives.


Electronic books.

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