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You Are All Free - The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (Paperback) Loot Price: R736
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You Are All Free - The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (Paperback): Jeremy D. Popkin

You Are All Free - The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (Paperback)

Jeremy D. Popkin

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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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2010
First published: 2010
Authors: Jeremy D. Popkin
Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-73194-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 0-521-73194-1
Barcode: 9780521731942

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