Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789 1804 2nd edition by Laurent Dubois, John Garrigus ISBN‎ 1319048781 ‎ 978-1319048785

PART ONE Introduction: Revolution, Emancipation, and Independence

The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

The Revolution Begins, 1789–1791

From Slave Revolution to Emancipation, 1791–1794

Defining Emancipation, 1794–1801

The Haitian Revolution and the United States

War and Independence

The Legacy of the Haitian Revolution

Major Revolutionary Figures and Groups

PART TWO The Documents

1. The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

1. Macandal Saved!, 1758

2. Prophesies of Slave Revolution, 1771 and 1780

3. Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description . . . of the French Part of the Island of Saint-Domingue, 1797

2. The Revolution Begins, 1789–1791

4. Letters from the Slave Revolt in Martinique, August–September 1789

5. The Free Citizens of Color, Address to the National Assembly, October 22, 1789

6. The National Assembly, Decree of March 8 and Instructions of March 28, 1790

7. Abbé Grégoire, Letter to Those Who Love Mankind, October 1790

8. Letters from the Uprising of Vincent Ogé, October 1790

9. Julien Raimond, Observations on the Origin and Progression of the White Colonists’ Prejudice against Men of Color, 1791

10. The National Assembly, Law on the Colonies, 1791

11. Mortals Are Equal, 1791

3. From Slave Revolution to Emancipation, 1791–1794

12. Hérard Dumesle, Voyage to the North of Haiti, 1824

13. Antoine Dalmas, History of the Revolution of Saint-Domingue, 1814

14. Pierre Mossut, Letter to the Marquis de Gallifet, September 19, 1791

15. Philadelphia General Advertiser, Reports from the Insurrection, October–November 1791

16. Jean-François and Biassou, Letters to the Commissioners, December 1791

17. Gros, In the Camps of the Insurgents, 1791

18. Olympe de Gouges, Preface to The Slavery of the Blacks, 1792

19. Jean-Paul Marat, From The Friend of the People, 1792

20. Thomas Clarkson, The True State of the Case, Respecting the Insurrection at St. Domingo, 1792

21. The National Assembly, Law of April 4, 1792

22. Journal Républicain de la Guadeloupe, Account of the Slave Revolt, April 24, 1793

23. Fougea, The Armed Nègre, 1792 or 1794

24. Laurent Jolicoeur, Petition, 1793

25. Léger Félicité Sonthonax, Decree of General Liberty, August 29, 1793

26. Pierre Jean L. Boquet, Plunder of Cap Français, 1793

27. Insurgent Responses to Emancipation, 1793

28. The National Convention, The Abolition of Slavery, February 4, 1794

4. Defining Emancipation, 1794–1801

29. Victor Hugues, Proclamations, 1794

30. Geneviève Labothière Secures Her Brother’s Freedom, 1796–1801

31. The Plantation Policies of Étienne Polverel, 1794

32. Jean-Baptiste Belley, The True Colors of the Planters, or the System of the Hotel Massiac, Exposed by Gouli, 1795

33. Anne-Louis Girodet, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, 1798

34. Toussaint Louverture, A Refutation of Some Assertions in a Speech Pronounced in the Corps Législatif . . . by Viénot Vaublanc, 1797

35. Étienne Laveaux, A Celebration of the Anniversary of Abolition, 1798

5. The Haitian Revolution and the United States

36. Thomas Jefferson, Letters, 1797–1802

37. Refugees in Charleston, S.C., Petition, October 25, 1799

38. Charles Brockden Brown, St. Domingo, December 1804

6. War and Independence

39. Toussaint Louverture, From Constitution of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, 1801

40. Louis Delgrès, Proclamation, 1802

41. General Jean-François-Xavier de Ménard, On the Final Stand of Delgrès, 1802

42. Napoléon Bonaparte and General Charles-Victor-Emmanuel Leclerc, Letters, 1802–1803

43. Mary Hassal, From Secret History; or the Horrors of St. Domingo, 1808

44. Marie-Rose Masson, Letter to the Marquis de Gallifet, July 27, 1802

45. Brigadier General Pierre Cangé, Letter to Delpech, November 1802

46. The Haitian Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804

47. The Haitian Constitution, 1805

48. Vodou Songs about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, since the Nineteenth Century

APPENDIXES

A Chronology of Events Related to the Slave Revolution in the Caribbean (1635–1805)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index