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Title:

YOU ARE ALL FREE
THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION AND THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY

By:

Jeremy D. Popkin

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521517222

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9780521517225

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2010

Pages:

440

Description:

The events leading to the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793, and in France.

Synopsis:

The abolitions of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the first dramatic blows against an institution that had shaped the Atlantic world for three centuries and affected the lives of millions of people. Based on extensive archival research, You Are All Free provides the first complete account of the dramatic events that led to these epochal decrees, and also to the destruction of Cap Francais, the richest city in the French Caribbean, and to the first refugee crisis in the United States. Taking issue with earlier accounts that claim that Saint-Domingue's slaves freed themselves, or that French revolutionaries abolished slavery as part of a general campaign for universal human rights, the book shows that abolition was the result of complex and often paradoxical political struggles on both sides of the Atlantic that have frequently been misunderstood by earlier scholars.

Illustrations:

14 b/w illus. 4 maps

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of American Historical Association J. Russell Major Prize 2011 Winner of David Pinkney Prize 2010

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"MEMOIRES SECRETS" AND THE CULTURE OF PUBLICITY (HB)

A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION