Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
Collective Action in the African Diaspora
2nd Edition
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Part of Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Crystal Nicole Eddins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- Date Published: April 2022
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- isbn: 9781009256155
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The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. The book fills an important gap in the existing literature on the Haitian Revolution. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Read more- A new perspective on the origins of the Haitian Revolution
- Explores the history of Black mobilization and self-determination
- Based on runaway advertisement data, a previously under examined source
- This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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'Recommended.' R. I. Rotberg, Choice
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: April 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009256155
- length: 378 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.577kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Homelands, Diaspora, and Slave Society:
1. 'We Have a False Idea of the Negro': Legacies of Resistance and the African Past
2. In the Shadow of Death
Part II. Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Geographies and Space, Networks and Ties:
3. 'God Knows What I Do': Ritual Free Spaces
4. Mobilizing Marronnage: Race, Collective Identity, and Solidarity
5. Marronnage as Reclamation
6. Geographies of Subversion: Maroons, Borders, and Empire
Part III. Collective Action and Revolution:
7. 'We Must Stop the Progress of Marronnage': Repertoires and Repression
8. Voices of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution Begins
Conclusion
Index
Notes
References.
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