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Haitian Revolution, Part I: 1791-1793

11/16/2019

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In 1791, the enslaved people of France's wealthiest colony, Saint-Domingue, rose up for freedom. In this episode, Elizabeth examines the many factors that led to the abolition of slavery in the region now known as Haiti. The French Revolution, Kongolese leadership, social stratification, religion, and many other aspects all pay a role in what will become the first successful slave revolt of the Atlantic world. 

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Further Reading

Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World (Harvard University Press, 2005).  

Jeremy D. Popkin, A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, Vol. 3 (John Wiley & Sons, 2011). 

--, Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection. (University of Chicago Press, 2010). 

Carolyn E. Fick, "The Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic Context," Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Society, 19 (1994) pp. 128-140.

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "Beyond 'The Black Jacobins': Haitian Revolutionary Historiography Comes of Age," Journal of Haitian Studies, 23:1 (Spring 2017), pp. 4-34.

C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, (Penguin UK, 1938, reprint 2001).  

Additional Websites

Fictions of the Haitian Revolution

Haitian Studies Association

BlackPast 

Related Content

Haitian Revolution, Part II: 1794-1804

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
4 Comments
Alyssa Sepinwall
11/20/2019 12:15:11 am

Glad you found my CLR James article useful, and thanks for bringing the Revolution's story in this form to your listeners!

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Elizabeth link
11/20/2019 08:39:05 am

Thanks for writing such a great historiographical breakdown!

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Aneesh
2/7/2020 02:42:26 pm

heyoo

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Joseph Cashman link
2/9/2023 11:48:54 am

Enjoyed this. I read Isabelle Allende's Isla Bajo Del Mar. Great read, but i enjoyed hearing a more factual account of events. Thank you.

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