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A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century“Liberté, Indépendance”: Haitian Anti-slavery and National Independence

A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century: “Liberté, Indépendance”:... [“From the moment that I realized that my compatriots had taken a vow to prefer death to servitude,” general in chief of the Armée indigène, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, wrote in his military journal at the end of the Haitian Revolution, “I promised to pursue with determination the French, our executioners.”1 While the Haitian revolution had begun in 1791 with a coordinated slave uprising in the northern plain of Saint-Domingue, the battle only became a war for independence in 1802 when Napoleon’s army reinvaded the colony and sparked rumours of a reinstitution of slavery. Dessalines declared that to ensure the end of slavery, the island had to break away from the French Empire. In November 1803, the defeated French army set sail from the city of Cap Français and only left one small contingent of troops, who escaped to the city of Santo Domingo on the eastern side of the island. The coalition of former slaves and former free people of colour would now rule. “Put in my hands your sworn willingness to live free and independent,” Dessalines proclaimed on 1 January 1804 in the Haitian Declaration of Independence, “and to prefer death to all that would put you back under the yoke.”2 Freedom for all citizens had been achieved by the victory in the war for independence. The country was renamed “Hayti”, and all “Haytians” would thereby, it was believed, be forever free from servitude.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century“Liberté, Indépendance”: Haitian Anti-slavery and National Independence

Editors: Mulligan, William; Bric, Maurice
Gaffield, Julia
Springer Journals — Oct 24, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
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978-1-349-44116-7
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17 –36
DOI
10.1057/9781137032607_2
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Abstract

[“From the moment that I realized that my compatriots had taken a vow to prefer death to servitude,” general in chief of the Armée indigène, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, wrote in his military journal at the end of the Haitian Revolution, “I promised to pursue with determination the French, our executioners.”1 While the Haitian revolution had begun in 1791 with a coordinated slave uprising in the northern plain of Saint-Domingue, the battle only became a war for independence in 1802 when Napoleon’s army reinvaded the colony and sparked rumours of a reinstitution of slavery. Dessalines declared that to ensure the end of slavery, the island had to break away from the French Empire. In November 1803, the defeated French army set sail from the city of Cap Français and only left one small contingent of troops, who escaped to the city of Santo Domingo on the eastern side of the island. The coalition of former slaves and former free people of colour would now rule. “Put in my hands your sworn willingness to live free and independent,” Dessalines proclaimed on 1 January 1804 in the Haitian Declaration of Independence, “and to prefer death to all that would put you back under the yoke.”2 Freedom for all citizens had been achieved by the victory in the war for independence. The country was renamed “Hayti”, and all “Haytians” would thereby, it was believed, be forever free from servitude.]

Published: Oct 24, 2015

Keywords: National Library; British Government; Slave Trade; American Philosophical Society; French Coloni

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