Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois

Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution

Laurent Dubois

357 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced

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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 world. Within a...

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