Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

by Sibylle Fischer

Book Overview

On 1 January 1804, the revolutionary slaves of Saint Domingue established the first independent black state in the Americas and proclaimed their break with the French Republic. After more than a decade of protracted bloody battles, the only successful slave revolution in world history ended. The richest sugar colony of the New World was reduced to ashes, and of the troops Napoleon had sent with genocidal intent only very few made it back home...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766401519
• ISBN13: 9789766401511
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 364 Pages