Rituals, runaways, and the Haitian Revolution collective action in the African diaspora
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2022
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| Series: | Cambridge studies on the African diaspora
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- "We have a false idea of the Negro" : legacies of resistance and the African past
- In the shadow of death
- "God knows what I do" : ritual free spaces
- Mobilizing marronnage : race, collective identity, & solidarity
- Marronnage as reclamation
- Geographies of subversion : maroons, borders, and empire
- "We must stop the progress of marronnage" : repertoires and repression
- Voices of liberty : the Haitian Revolution begins