A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution Garrigus John D.
A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution Garrigus John D. A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the…
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A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian Revolution Garrigus John D.
A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.Unearthing the progenitors of the Haitian Revolution has been a historical project of two hundred years. Garrigus introduces two dozen Black men and women and their communities whose decades of resistance to deadly environmental and political threats preceded and shaped the 1791 revolt.In the twenty-five miles surrounding the revolt's first fires, enslaved people of diverse origins lived in a crucible of forces that arose from the French colonial project. In A Secret among the Blacks, John D.
Planters accused, tortured, and killed enslaved healers, survivors, and When a combination of drought, trade blockade, and deadly anthrax bacteria caused waves of death among the enslaved in the 1750s, poison investigations spiraled across plantations.