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PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: Revolution, Emancipation, and Independence. The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century ; The Revolution Begins, 1789-1791 ; From Slave Revolution to Emancipation, 1791-1794 ; Defining Emancipation, 1794-1801 ; The Haitian Revolution and the United States ; War and Independence ; The Legacy of the Haitian Revolution -- Major Revolutionary Figures and Groups -- PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS. The French Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century. 1. Macandal saved!, 1758 ; 2. Prophesies of Slave Revolution, 1771 and 1780 ; 3. Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description ... of the French Part of the Island of Saint-Domingue, 1797 -- The Revolution Begins, 1789-1791. 4. Letters from the Slave Revolt in Martinique, August-September 1789 ; 5. The Free Citizens of Color, Address to the National Assembly, October 22, 1789 ; 6. The National Assembly, Decree of March 8 and Instructions of March 28, 1790 ; 7. Abbé Grégoire, Letter to Those Who Love Mankind, October 1790 ; 8. Letters from the Uprising of Vincent Ogé, October 1790 ; 9. Julien Raimond, Observations on the Origin and Progression of the White Colonists' Prejudice against Men of Color, 1791 ; 10. The National Asssembly, Law on the Colonies, 1791 ; 11. Mortals are Equal, 1791 -- From Slave Revolution to Emancipation, 1791-1794. 12. Hérard Dumesle, Voyage to the North of Haiti, 1824 ; 13. Antoine Dalmas, History of the Revolution of Saint-Domingue, 1814 ; 14. Pierre Mossut, Letter to the Marquis de Gallifet, September 19, 1791 ; 15. Philadelphia General Advertiser, Reports from the Insurrection, October-November 1791 ; 16. Jean-François and Biassou, Letters to the Commissioners, December 1791 ; 17. Gros, In the Camps of the Insurgents, 1791 ; 18. Olympe de Gouges, Preface to The Slavery of the Blacks, 1792 ; 19. Jean-Paul Marat, From The Friend of the People, 1792 ; 20. Thomas Clarkson, The True State of the Case, Respecting the Insurrection at St. Domingo, 1792 ; 21. The National Assembly, Law of April 4, 1792 ; 22. Journal Républicain de la Guadeloupe, Account of the Slave Revolt, April 24, 1793 ; 23. Fougea, The Armed Nègre, 1792 or 1794 ; 24. Laurent Jolicoeur, Petition, 1793 ; 25. Léger Félicité Sonthonax, Decree of General Liberty, August 29, 1793 ; 26. Pierre Jean L. Boquet, Plunder of Cap Français, 1793 ; 27. Insurgent Responses to Emancipation, 1793 ; 28. The National Convention, The Abolition of Slavery, February 4, 1794 -- Defining Emancipation, 1794-1801. 29. Victor Hugues, Proclamations, 1794 ; 30. Geneviève Labothière Secures Her Brother's Freedom, 1796-1801 ; 31. The Plantation Policies of Étienne Polverel, 1794 ; 32. Jean-Baptiste Belley, The True Colors of the Planters, or the System of the Hotel Massiac, Exposed by Gouli, 1795 ; 33. Anne-Louis Girodet, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, 1798 ; 34. Toussaint Louverture, A Refutation of Some Assertions in a Speech Pronounced in the Corps Législatif ... by Viénot Vaublanc, 1797 ; 35. Étienne Laveaux, A Celebration of the Anniversary of Abolition, 1798 -- The Haitian Revolution and the United States. 36. Thomas Jefferson, Letters, 1797-1802 ; 37. Refugees in Charleston, S.C., Petition, October 25, 1799 ; 38. Charles Brockden Brown, St. Domingo, December 1804 -- War and Independence. 39. Toussaint Louverture, From Constitution of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, 1801 ; 40. Louis Delgrès, Proclamation, 1802 ; 41. General Jean-Franois-Xavier de Ménard, On the Final Stand of Delgrès, 1802 ; 42. Napoléon Bonaparte and General Charles-Victor-Emmanuel Leclerc, Letters, 1802-1803 ; 43. Mary Hassal, From Secret History, or the Horrors of St. Domingo, 1808 ; 44. Marie-Rose Masson, Letter to the Marquis de Gallifet, July 27, 1802 ; 45. Brigadier General Pierre Cangé, Letter from to Delpech, November 1802 ; 46. The Haitian Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804 ; 47. The Haitian Constitution, 1805 ; 48. Vodou Songs about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Since the Nineteenth Century -- Appendixes. A Chronology of Events Related to the Slave Revolution in the Caribbean (1635-1805) ; Questions for Consideration. |