| ID | 153377 |
| Title Proper | Black bonaparte |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Crandall, Russell |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The revolt of African slaves that erupted in Saint-Domingue in late August 1791 occurred in France’s most lucrative New World colony. Encompassing the western third of Hispaniola Island since 1659 and representing the most ‘profitable stretch of real estate on the planet’ according to historian Edward Baptist, the colony’s sugar, coffee, indigo and cotton served as the fuel for France’s ‘imperial engine’.1 Now, its sugar plantations were ablaze as slaves torched cane fields and killed their masters. With France’s own revolution having begun in 1789, free people of colour in Saint-Domingue also took up arms after French landowners refused to extend citizenship to them as laid out in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. An independent Republic of Haiti was eventually established on 1 January 1804; by then, upwards of 350,000 Haitians and 50,000 French troops had been killed (the troops mostly from yellow fever), and the island nation’s economy lay in tatters.2 |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 59, No.4; Aug-Sep 2017: p.183-190 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 59 No 4 |
| Key Words | Latin America ; France ; Caribbean ; Governance ; Civil Conflict ; Protest |