Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
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GBPThe 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.
- 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
Reviews & endorsements
'Recommended.' R. I. Rotberg, Choice
'This fantastic book will join and enliven recent work on what might be called the practical politics of economic thought.' Alexandre White, American Journal of Sociology
'Eddins's book is an important contribution to recent work redirecting attention from the leadership of the revolution toward the ideas and aspirations of rank-and-file participants … it is also a call to rethink the conventionally Eurocentric ways that scholars conceive of the Age of Revolutions and the rise of modernity.' James Sidbury, William and Mary Quarterly
Product details
April 2022Paperback
9781009256155
378 pages
228 × 152 × 22 mm
0.577kg
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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.
