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