A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution

List of Illustrations vi

Series Editor’s Preface vii

Introduction 1

1 A Colonial Society in a Revolutionary Era 10

2 The Uprisings, 1791–1793 35

3 Republican Emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793–1798 62

4 Toussaint Louverture in Power, 1798–1801 90

5 The Struggle for Independence, 1802–1806 114

6 Consolidating Independence in a Hostile World 141

Afterword: The Earthquake Crisis of 2010 and the Haitian Revolution 167

Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution 171

Notes 178

Index 191