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You Are All Free - The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (Hardcover)
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You Are All Free - The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (Hardcover)
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The abolitions of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of
Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the
first dramatic blows against an institution that had shaped the
Atlantic world for three centuries and affected the lives of
millions of people. Based on extensive archival research, You Are
All Free provides the first complete account of the dramatic events
that led to these epochal decrees, and also to the destruction of
Cap Francais, the richest city in the French Caribbean, and to the
first refugee crisis in the United States. Taking issue with
earlier accounts that claim that Saint-Domingue s slaves freed
themselves, or that French revolutionaries abolished slavery as
part of a general campaign for universal human rights, the book
shows that abolition was the result of complex and often
paradoxical political struggles on both sides of the Atlantic that
have frequently been misunderstood by earlier scholars.
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