Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection

by Jeremy D. Popkin

Book Overview

The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to the first independent black republic of the modern era. Inspired by the revolution that had recently roiled their French rulers, black slaves and people of mixed race alike rose up against their oppressors in a bloody insurrection that led to the burning of the colony's largest city, a bitter struggle against Napoleon's troops, and in 1804, the founding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226675831
• ISBN13: 9780226675831
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"