| Edition |
Second edition revised. |
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Vintage Books edition. |
| Description |
xi, 426 pages : map ; 19 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-389) and index. |
| Contents |
The property -- The owners -- Parliament and property -- The San Domingo masses begin -- And the Paris masses complete -- The rise of Toussaint -- The mulattoes try and fail -- The white slave-owners again -- The expulsion of the British -- Toussaint seizes the power -- The Black consul -- The bourgeoisie prepares to restore slavery -- The War of Independence -- Appendix : from Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro. |
| Summary |
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean. |
| Subject |
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
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Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804.
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Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Biography.
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Revolutionaries -- Haiti -- Biography.
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Generals -- Haiti -- Biography.
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Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. (OCoLC)fst00004532
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Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
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Revolutionaries. (OCoLC)fst01096578
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Haiti. (OCoLC)fst01205135
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Haiti -- History.
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Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804) (OCoLC)fst01354524 |
| Chronological Term |
1791-1804
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographies.
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History.
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| ISBN |
0679724672 (pbk.) |
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9780679724674 (pbk.) |
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