Encountering revolution : Haiti and the making of the early republic / Ashli White.
For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. A...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
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Series: | Early America.
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Main Collection
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E184.H27 W458 2010 |
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