Haitian Revolution - The Haitian Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Nick Nesbitt is Professor of French at Princeton University. He is the editor of Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution co-editor of Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Music , and author of Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment , a study of the political ontology of the Haitian Revolution, and Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature , a study of Antillean literature and black Atlantic critical theory. Toussaint Louverture was a leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Saint-Domingue, in a long struggle for independence Toussaint led enslaved Africans and Afro-Haitians to victory over French colonisers, abolished slavery, and secured 'native' control over the colony, Haiti. Klappentext Aristide was president of Haiti twice! and here introduces this collection of the revolutionary's writings. Previously unavailable in English. Zusammenfassung Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century! in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first free black republic. This collection of his writings and speeches demonstrates his profound contribution to the struggle for equality.

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• Authors: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Toussaint L''ouverture, Nick Nesbitt, Louverture Toussaint, Toussaint Louverture
• Assisted by: Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Editor), Nick Nesbitt (Editor), Nesbitt Nick (Editor), Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Introduction), Aristide Jean-Bertrand (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2008
• EAN: 9781844672615
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-261-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Revolutions; Revolutions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Haiti, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1700 To C 1800, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Haiti