Crystal Nicole Eddins

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Collective Action in the African Diaspora

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. The book fills an important gap in the existing literature on the Haitian Revolution. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009256179
• Artikelnr.: 66177745

Autorenporträt

Crystal Eddins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research has been supported by the Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellowship, the John Carter Brown Library, and the National Science Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Homelands, Diaspora, and Slave Society: 1. 'We Have a False Idea of the Negro': Legacies of Resistance and the African Past
2. In the Shadow of Death
Part II. Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Geographies and Space, Networks and Ties: 3. 'God Knows What I Do': Ritual Free Spaces
4. Mobilizing Marronnage: Race, Collective Identity, and Solidarity
5. Marronnage as Reclamation
6. Geographies of Subversion: Maroons, Borders, and Empire
Part III. Collective Action and Revolution: 7. 'We Must Stop the Progress of Marronnage': Repertoires and Repression
8. Voices of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution Begins
Conclusion
Index
Notes
References.