Facing Racial Revolution
Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection

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Foreword
Introduction: From Saint-Domingue to Haiti: Eyewitness Narratives of the Haitian Revolution
1. Becoming a Slavemaster
2. The Ogé Insurrection
3. The First Days of the Slave Insurrection
4. A Poet in the Midst of Insurrection: Amon Odyssée
5. An Expedition against the Insurgents in November 1791
6. Inside the Insurgency: Gros’s Historick Recital
7. Prisoners of the Insurgents in 1792
8. Fighting and Atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793
9. Masters and Their Slaves during the Insurrection
10. The Destruction of Cap Français in June 1793
11. A Colonist at Sea, 1793
12. Imagining the Motives behind the Insurrection
13. A Colonist among the Spanish and the British
14. A White Captive in the Struggle against the Leclerc Expedition
15. A Family Reunion and a Religious Conversion
16. A Woman’s View of the Last Days of Cap Français
17. A Child’s Memories of the Last Days of Saint-Domingue
18. A Survivor of Dessalines’s Massacres in 1804
19. The Story of the Last French Survivors in Saint-Domingue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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