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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688566403321

Autore

Eddins Crystal Nicole <1984->

Titolo

Rituals, runaways, and the Haitian Revolution : collective action in the African diaspora / / Crystal Nicole Eddins [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2022

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-009-25617-3

1-009-25616-5

1-009-25614-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 359 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies on the African diaspora

Disciplina

305.896/07294

Soggetti

Slave rebellions - Haiti - History

Social movements - Haiti - History

Group identity - Haiti

Black people - Haiti - Social life and customs

Rites and ceremonies - Haiti

Maroons - Haiti - Ethnic identity

Black people - Race identity - Haiti

Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 Causes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 2022, ISBN 9781108843720, Reissued as Open Access in 2022.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Nota di contenuto

"We have a false idea of the Negro" : legacies of resistance and the African past -- In the shadow of death -- "God knows what I do" : ritual free spaces -- Mobilizing marronnage : race, collective identity, & solidarity -- Marronnage as reclamation -- Geographies of subversion : maroons, borders, and empire -- "We must stop the progress of marronnage" : repertoires and repression -- Voices of liberty : the Haitian Revolution begins.

Sommario/riassunto

The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved



Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. The book fills an important gap in the existing literature on the Haitian Revolution. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.