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

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

Sibylle Fischer

364 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

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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 succes...

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