Haitian Revolution Part 4: All For the Republic

When Britain and Spain declare war on the French Republic, the situation in Saint-Domingue takes a turn for the worse. In the face of these new challenges, the republicans resort to extraordinary measures in an attempt to court the former slaves over to their cause.

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Bibliography:

Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: the Story of the Haitian Revolution. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Dubois, Laurent. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. Metropolitan Books, 2012

Fick, Carolyn. The Making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. The University of Tennessee Press, 2004. 

Geggus, David. The Haitian Revolution: a Documentary History. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2014.

James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Vintage Books, 1989.

Cover Image: Battle of Santo Domingo (also known as Battle of Palm Tree Hill) painting by Polish artist January Suchodolski, 1845.

Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák

Closing Theme: "Ogou Feray" by Racine Mapou de Azor.