The End of the Plantocracy
Pooja Bhatia, 19 November 2020
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
by Julius S. Scott.
Verso, 246 pp., £12.99, September 2020,978 1 78873 248 2 Show More
by Julius S. Scott.
Verso, 246 pp., £12.99, September 2020,
Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti
by Johnhenry Gonzalez.
Yale, 302 pp., £30, August 2019,978 0 300 23008 6 Show More
by Johnhenry Gonzalez.
Yale, 302 pp., £30, August 2019,
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Penguin, 442 pp., £25, September 2020,978 0 241 29381 2 Show More
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Penguin, 442 pp., £25, September 2020,
“... demand of French commanders that their soldiers remove ‘Liberty or Death’ from their banners.Johnhenry Gonzalez acknowledges a paradox in the title of his book, Maroon Nation. A maroon is a runaway slave, and slavery was abolished in the western half of Hispaniola even before the Haitian state existed. A nation ... ”
