- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
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Introduction From Saint-Domingue to Haiti: Eyewitness Narratives of the Haitian Revolution -
Chapter 1 Becoming a Slavemaster -
Chapter 2 The Ogé Insurrection -
Chapter 3 The First Days of the Slave Insurrection -
Chapter 4 A Poet in the Midst of Insurrection: “Mon Odyssée” -
Chapter 5 An Expedition against the Insurgents in November 1791 -
Chapter 6 Inside the Insurgency: Gros's Historick Recital -
Chapter 7 Prisoners of the Insurgents in 1792 -
Chapter 8 Fighting and Atrocities in the South Province in 1792–1793 -
Chapter 9 Masters and Their Slaves during the Insurrection -
Chapter 10 The Destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 -
Chapter 11 A Colonist at Sea, 1793 -
Chapter 12 Imagining the Motives behind the Insurrection -
Chapter 13 A Colonist Among the Spanish and the British -
Chapter 14 A White Captive in the Struggle against the Leclerc Expedition -
Chapter 15 A Family Reunion and a Religious Conversion -
Chapter 16 A Woman's View of the Last Days of Cap Français -
Chapter 17 A Child's Memories of the Last Days of Saint-Domingue -
Chapter 18 A Survivor of Dessalines's Massacres in 1804 -
Chapter 19 The Story of the Last French Survivors in Saint-Domingue - Bibliography of Text Sources
- Index
Becoming a Slavemaster
Becoming a Slavemaster
- Chapter:
- (p.37) Chapter 1 Becoming a Slavemaster
- Source:
- Facing Racial Revolution
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter presents an excerpt from a first-person narrative about the Haitian revolution. This manuscript consists of detailed advice for the running of plantations devoted to the various crops that had been grown in Saint-Domingue before the revolution and stories about the unnamed author's life before and during the revolutionary years. It discusses the process by which newly arrived whites from France learned to play their roles in the colonial system and provides a full description of a major atrocity committed by whites against people of color.
Keywords: Haitian revolution, first-person narrative, plantations, Saint-Domingue, whites, France, colonial systems, people of color, atrocity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
-
Introduction From Saint-Domingue to Haiti: Eyewitness Narratives of the Haitian Revolution -
Chapter 1 Becoming a Slavemaster -
Chapter 2 The Ogé Insurrection -
Chapter 3 The First Days of the Slave Insurrection -
Chapter 4 A Poet in the Midst of Insurrection: “Mon Odyssée” -
Chapter 5 An Expedition against the Insurgents in November 1791 -
Chapter 6 Inside the Insurgency: Gros's Historick Recital -
Chapter 7 Prisoners of the Insurgents in 1792 -
Chapter 8 Fighting and Atrocities in the South Province in 1792–1793 -
Chapter 9 Masters and Their Slaves during the Insurrection -
Chapter 10 The Destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 -
Chapter 11 A Colonist at Sea, 1793 -
Chapter 12 Imagining the Motives behind the Insurrection -
Chapter 13 A Colonist Among the Spanish and the British -
Chapter 14 A White Captive in the Struggle against the Leclerc Expedition -
Chapter 15 A Family Reunion and a Religious Conversion -
Chapter 16 A Woman's View of the Last Days of Cap Français -
Chapter 17 A Child's Memories of the Last Days of Saint-Domingue -
Chapter 18 A Survivor of Dessalines's Massacres in 1804 -
Chapter 19 The Story of the Last French Survivors in Saint-Domingue - Bibliography of Text Sources
- Index
