John D Garrigus
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Garrigus provides a profound historical corrective, showing that enslaved Blacks in Saint-Domingue were hardly complacent before the Haitian Revolution. While scholars who have looked beyond the island's shores for the forces that inspired rebellion, Garrigus documents African resistance and political organizing decades before the 1791 revolt"--