| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 359 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies on the African diaspora |
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Cambridge studies on the African diaspora.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"We have a false idea of the Negro" : legacies of resistance and the African past -- In the shadow of death -- "God knows what I do" : ritual free spaces -- Mobilizing marronnage : race, collective identity, & solidarity -- Marronnage as reclamation -- Geographies of subversion : maroons, borders, and empire -- "We must stop the progress of marronnage" : repertoires and repression -- Voices of liberty : the Haitian Revolution begins. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 19, 2021). |
| Summary |
The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. Considering the importance of the Haitian Revolution and the growing scholarly interest in exploring it, Eddins fills an important gap in the existing literature. |
| Local Note |
Cambridge University Press Cambridge Open Access Books and Elements |
| Subject |
Slave rebellions -- Haiti -- History.
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Black people -- Race identity -- Haiti.
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Maroons -- Haiti -- Ethnic identity.
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Rites and ceremonies -- Haiti.
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Black people -- Haiti -- Social life and customs.
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Group identity -- Haiti.
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Social movements -- Haiti -- History.
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Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Causes.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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Black people -- Race identity.
(OCoLC)fst00833987
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Black people -- Social life and customs.
(OCoLC)fst00834008
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Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
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Rites and ceremonies. (OCoLC)fst01098216
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Slave insurrections. (OCoLC)fst01120389
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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War -- Causes.
(OCoLC)fst01170331
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Haiti. (OCoLC)fst01205135
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Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804) (OCoLC)fst01354524
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| Chronological Term |
1791-1804
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eddins, Crystal Nicole, 1984- Rituals, runaways, and the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108843720 (DLC) 2021027125 |
| ISBN |
9781108919890 (electronic book) |
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1108919898 (electronic book) |
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9781009256148 (electronic book) |
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1009256149 (electronic book) |
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