A colony of citizens : revolution & slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 /

Dubois, Laurent, 1971-

A colony of citizens : revolution & slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 / Laurent Dubois. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, c2004. - x, 452 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Insurrection and the language of rights -- A social cartography -- Prophetic rumor -- The insurgent republic -- The arrival of emancipation -- Making slaves citizens -- Worthy of the nation -- War and emancipation -- The mark of freedom -- The revolution's spiral -- The promise of revolution -- The road to Matouba -- Defending the republic -- The new imperial order -- "Vivre libre ou mourir!" -- The exiled republic.

0807828742 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807855367 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2003019519


Slaves--Emancipation--History.--West Indies, French
CEH
Colección Estudios Haitianos
Slave insurrections--History.--West Indies, French


West Indies, French--History.

200 F 2151 / D139c 2004

326/.8/0972976