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Title: You Are All Free
Condition: New
Description: The abolitions of slavery in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the first dramatic blows against an institution that had shaped the Atlantic world for three centuries and affected the lives of millions of people. Based on extensive archival research, You Are All Free provides the first complete account of the dramatic events that led to these epochal decrees, and also to the destruction of Cap Français, the richest city in the French Caribbean, and to the first refugee crisis in the United States. Taking issue with earlier accounts that claim that Saint-Domingue's slaves freed themselves, or that French revolutionaries abolished slavery as part of a general campaign for universal human rights, the book shows that abolition was the result of complex and often paradoxical political struggles on both sides of the Atlantic that have frequently been misunderstood by earlier scholars.
Author: Jeremy D. Popkin
EAN: 9780521731942
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521731942
Language: English
Item Height: 228mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 590g
Genre: History
Subtitle: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 08/30/2010
Release Year: 2010

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