A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. Jeremy D. Popkin
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       Maps

      1 Saint-Domingue/Haiti and the Caribbean

      2 The French Colony of Saint-Domingue in 1789

      3 Saint-Domingue, May

       Figures

      1.1 Plantations and enslaved labor

      1.2 Vincent Ogé calls on the free men of color to demand their rights

      2.1 Haitian Postage Stamp of the Bois Caïman Ceremony

      2.2 Esclavage: La Révolte des esclaves Noirs à Saint-Dominique

      3.1 Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Belley

      4.1 Toussaint Louverture: Chef des Noirs insurgés de Saint-Domingue

      4.2 Toussaint Louverture proclaiming the Saint-Domingue Constitution of 1801

      5.1 The Mode of Exterminating the Black Army as Practised by the French

      5.2 Dessalines, the First Emperor of Haiti, in His Dress Uniform

      5.3 The Haitian Declaration of Independence, 1804

      6.1 Guillaume Guillon Lethière (1760–1832), Le Serment des Ancêtres

      Each book in the “Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista” series introduces students to a significant theme or topic in Latin American history. In an age in which student and faculty interest in the global South increasingly challenges the old focus on the history of Europe and North America, Latin American history has assumed an increasingly prominent position in undergraduate curricula.

      Some of these books discuss the ways in which historians have interpreted these themes and topics, thus demonstrating that our understanding of our past is constantly changing, through the emergence of new sources, methodologies, and historical theories. Others offer an introduction to a particular theme by means of a case study or biography in a manner easily understood by the contemporary, non‐specialist reader. Yet others give an overview of a major theme that might serve as the foundation of an upper‐level course.

      What is common to all of these books is their goal of historical synthesis. They draw on the insights of generations of scholarship on the most enduring and fascinating issues in Latin American history, and through the use of primary sources as appropriate. Each book is written by a specialist in Latin American history who is concerned with undergraduate teaching, yet has also made his or her mark as a first‐rate scholar.

      In this fifth volume in the series, Professor Jeremy Popkin provides an interpretation of the Haitian Revolution of 1791, at once a massive slave revolt and the second successful independence movement in the New World. The volume provides a clear and concise introduction to a historical process that, by raising the twin specters of freedom and violence, reverberated through the Atlantic world. Popkin discusses the legacy of the Haitian Revolution in global terms: the movement profoundly shaped other independence movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, and affected the political discourse in early nineteenth‐century Europe. A singular strength of this book is its chronological scope, encompassing the nineteenth century and beyond. The author makes the case that the Haitian Revolution was a process of global historical significance, and that it deserves equal billing with the much more widely studied revolutions in France and British North America.

      Jürgen Buchenau

      University of North Carolina, Charlotte

      Map 1 Saint-Domingue/Haiti and the Caribbean.

      On 16 August 1791, a building on one of the hundreds of sugar plantations in France’s wealthy Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue, today’s independent Republic of Haiti, was set on fire. The local white colonists immediately suspected one of the plantation’s enslaved blacks. Under interrogation, he made a startling confession. “The most trusted slaves on the neighboring plantations and those in the СКАЧАТЬ