Before Haiti Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue

by Garrigus, John D.

• ISBN13: 9781403971401
• ISBN10: 1403971404
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 and challenged slavery, and examines how they created their own New World identity in the years from 1760 to 1804.

Author Biography

John Garrigus is Professor of History, Jacksonville University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(20)
The Development of Creole Society on the Colonial Frontier	21	(30)
Race and Class in Creole Society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s	51	(32)
Freedom, Slavery, and the French Colonial State	83	(26)
Reform and Revolt after the Seven Years' War	109	(32)
Citizenship and Racism in the New Public Sphere	141	(30)
The Rising Economic Power of Free People of Color in the 1780s	171	(24)
Proving Free Colored Virtue	195	(32)
Free People of Color in the Southern Peninsula and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution, 1789--1791	227	(38)
Revolution and Republicanism in Aquin Parish	265	(38)
Epilogue	303	(12)
Notes	315	(54)
Bibliography	369	(12)
Index	381