Ever since C. L. R. James published The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (London, 1938), a study of the Haitian Revolution that toppled the world’s richest slave-based sugar plantation economy in French Saint-Domingue from 1791 to 1804, historians have not been able to ignore the contribution of enslaved Africans in the Americas to their own emancipation in the succeeding century. A plethora of studies of African agency has shed new light on the Saint-Domingue revolt; on other revolts by enslaved and free Africans elsewhere in the Americas before, during, and after Haiti’s time; on maroon communities established by runaway slaves; on self-purchase and other manumission processes exploited by slaves; and on other methods that slaves adopted to assert some measure of control over their lives. These studies have provided insights both into the workings of slave-plantation societies and into the subaltern activities of the enslaved people...
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June 01 2020
Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas
Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas
. By Aline
Helg
(trans. Laura
Vergnaud
) (Chapel Hill
, University of North Carolina Press
, 2019
) 368 pp. $90.00 cloth $29.95 paper
David Richardson
David Richardson
University of Hull
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David Richardson
University of Hull
Online ISSN: 1530-9169
Print ISSN: 0022-1953
© 2020 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2020
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2020) 51 (1): 174–175.
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David Richardson; Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2020; 51 (1): 174–175. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01549
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