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Avengers of the New World

The Story of the Haitian Revolution

by Laurent Dubois

A widely read narrative history of the Haitian Revolution from the plantation society of Saint-Domingue to independence in 1804. Dubois gives careful attention to the insurgents' own ideas, including the religious dimension of the 1791 uprising and the Bois Caïman tradition.

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