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Avengers of the New World : The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Avengers of the New World The Story of the Haitian Revolution Author:Laurent Dubois A Los Angeles Times 2004 Best Book of the Year A Christian Science Monitor 2004 Noteworthy Book of the Year The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic wor... more »ld. The slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the southern United States. "There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of books about the Haitian Revolution, but only a handful are indispensable. Avengers of the New World joins that select company. A powerful narrative informed by the latest research, it digs beneath ready-made notions … to bring to light the forging of new identities and new ideals." —Robin Blackburn, The Nation "A stern and brilliant new book … The Haitian Revolution, in all its ugliness and brutality, was the response of the oppressed, indentured and enslaved to their unjust condition. And it is this whirling and chaotic world that Dubois so vividly brings to life." —Amy Wilentz, Los Angeles Times Book Review« less