Haitian Revolution Part 2: The Rights of Man and Citizen

When a revolution breaks out in the streets of Paris in 1789, it is not long before its effects reach Saint-Domingue. Inspired by the ideals of the nascent French Revolution, the colony's distinct socio-economic and racial groups begin to fight amongst one another in order to make their respective visions of the colony's future into reality.  Email me: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?) Podcast Website (https://perspectivesinhistorypod.squa...) Follow me on Twitter (  / kaiserwillemii  ) Facebook Page (  / perspectivesinhistorypod  ) Buy Some Used Books (https://www.ebay.com/usr/perspectives...) Bibliography Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: the Story of the Haitian Revolution. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Dubois, Laurent. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. Metropolitan Books, 2012 Fick, Carolyn. The Making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. The University of Tennessee Press, 2004.  Geggus, David. The Haitian Revolution: a Documentary History. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2014. James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Vintage Books, 1989. Cover Image: Battle of Santo Domingo (also known as Battle of Palm Tree Hill) painting by Polish artist January Suchodolski, 1845. Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák. Closing Theme: "Ogou Feray" by Racine Mapou de Azor.