Avengers of the New World

ISBN: 9780674018266

出版社: Harvard Univ Pr

出版年: 2005-10

页数: 384

定价: $ 27.69

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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 18th Century Atlantic world. The slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the southern United States.