Universal emancipation; the Haitian Revolution and the radical Enlightenment.

9780813928036

Universal emancipation; the Haitian Revolution and the radical Enlightenment.

Nesbitt, Nick.

U. of Virginia Press

2008

261 pages

$22.50

Paperback

New World studies

F1923

Immediately upon achieving independence, the former slaves of the French colony of Saint-Domingue universally and unconditionally abolished slavery, a goal long rooted in liberal spheres, but never before manifested in actual practice. Nesbitt (French, U. of Aberdeen, Scotland) explore the implication of the fundamental act to declare everyone, not just white males, forever free of slavery.

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