Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora

Crystal Nicole Eddins

doi:10.1017/9781009256148

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.

'Recommended.'

R. I. Rotberg Source: Choice

'This fantastic book will join and enliven recent work on what might be called the practical politics of economic thought.'

Alexandre White Source: American Journal of Sociology

‘Eddins’s book is an important contribution to recent work redirecting attention from the leadership of the revolution toward the ideas and aspirations of rank-and-file participants … it is also a call to rethink the conventionally Eurocentric ways that scholars conceive of the Age of Revolutions and the rise of modernity.’

James Sidbury Source: William and Mary Quarterly

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Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
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Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora - Series page
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Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution - Title page
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Collective Action in the African Diaspora
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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I - Homelands, Diaspora, and Slave Society
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1 - “We Have a False Idea of the Negro”: Legacies of Resistance and the African Past
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2 - In the Shadow of Death
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II - Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Networks and Ties, Geographies and Space
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3 - “God knows what I do”: Ritual Free Spaces
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4 - Mobilizing Marronnage: Race, Collective Identity, and Solidarity
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5 - Marronnage as Reclamation
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6 - Geographies of Subversion: Maroons, Borders, and Empire
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III - Collective Action and Revolution
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7 - “We Must Stop the Progress of Marronnage”: Repertoires and Repression
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8 - Voices of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution Begins
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Conclusion
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Notes
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References
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Index
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