David Patrick Geggus teaches history at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Among his books are Slavery, War and Revolution and Haitian Revolutionary Studies (IUP, 2003).

Norman Fiering is author of Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition and Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context. Fiering is past director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library.

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Part I : Saint-Domingue on the Eve of Revolution: Politics and Economics

1. The Colony of Saint-Domingue on the Eve of Revolution David Geggus

2. Vestiges of the Built Landscape of Pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue Jacques de Cauna

3. Saint-Domingue's Free People of Color and the Tools of Revolution John Garrigus

4. On the Road to Citizenship: The Complex Paths toward the Integration of Free People of Color in the Two Capitals of Saint-Domingue Dominique Rogers

5. Colonial Absolutism: Politics in Principle and Practice in the Old Regime Gene Ogle

Part II: Unfolding of the Slave Revolution

6. The Insurgents of 1791, their Leaders, and the Concept of Independence Yves Benot

7. Avenging America: The Politics of Violence in the Haitian Revolution Laurent Dubois

8. Fêtes de l'hymen, fêtes de la liberté: Matrimony, Emancipation, and the Creation of New Men Elizabeth Colwill

9. The Colonial Vendée Malick Ghachem

10. The Slave Revolution and the Unfolding of Independence in Saint-Domingue, 1801-1804

Part III: Reverberations Carolyn Fick

11. The French Revolution's Other Island: The Impact of Saint-Domingue on Revolutionary Politics in France Jeremy Popkin

12. Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, 1791-1812 Ada Ferrer

13. Exiles in the United States Ashli White

14. Free Upon Higher Ground: Saint-Domingue Slaves' Suits for Freedom in U. S. Courts, 1792-1830 Sue Peabody

15. Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil João José Reis and Flavio Gomes

Part IV: Representations of the Revolution

16. The Specter of Saint-Domingue: The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the United States and France Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

17. Representations of the Haitian Revolution in French Fiction Léon-François Hoffmann

18. Neo-Classicism and the Haitian Revolution Carlo Célius

Afterword

Index