Saint-Domingue ‘Remembered’: Marcus Rainsford and Leonora Sansay’s Lessons for Atlantic World Governance

By January 1804, Saint-Domingue—the ‘pearl of the Antilles’—had been lost to colonial France and the independence of the newly-named ‘Haiti’ had been declared. This paper argues that where the majority of contemporary observers framed the Haitian Revolution in discussions of slavery, others emphasis...

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Main Author: James Forde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Australia 2017-07-01
Series:Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
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Online Access:http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/3033491/Forde_article.pdf