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'This work makes an enormous contribution to the existing scholarship on Haiti, on free people of colour in the Caribbean, and more generally to our understanding of the history of the Atlantic world.' - Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University, USA 'In 1791, the western third of the island of Hispaniola stood as the crown jewel of France's empire and the world's most valuable slave-based colony. It also possessed the most prosperous class of free-coloured slaveholders in the history of the Americas. John Garrigus zeroes in on members of this ambivalent class, particulary those from St. Domingue's South Province who exerted disproportionate influence in challenging the metropolis to apply the high ideals of the French Revolution to end racial discrimination in France's overseas possessions. With this important book, Garrigus has illuminated the complex process that transformed slave revolt into social revolutio, subjects into citizens, and colony into nation.' - Robert L. Paquette, Publius Rogers Professor of American History, Hamilton College, USA 'Before Haiti, an important new study of free people of colour in southern colonial Saint-Domingue, offers critical insights into the

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Author

John D. Garrigus (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9786611365936

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-24