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

Crystal Nicole Eddins

doi:10.1017/9781009256148

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution

Collective Action in the African Diaspora

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Crystal Nicole Eddins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781009256148
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256148
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Series:: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
Subjects:: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, African History, Latin American History, Sociology

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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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