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An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom: Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809

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Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that was Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that was the Dominican Republic. Tracing conflicts over the terms and boundaries of territory, liberty, and citizenship that transpired within the two colonies that shared one island, Nessler argues that the territories’ borders and governance were incessantly unclear and mutually influential all through a tumultuous period that witnessed emancipation in Saint-Domingue and reenslavement in Santo Domingo.

Nessler aligns the better-known history of the French side with a full investigation and interpretation of events at the Spanish side, articulating the importance of Santo Domingo within the conflicts that reshaped the political terrain of the Atlantic world. Nessler also analyzes the strategies employed by those claimed as slaves in both colonies to realize liberty and equal citizenship. In doing so, he reveals what was once at stake for slaves and free nonwhites of their uses of colonial legal systems and how their working out of legal matters affected the colonies’ relationships with every other and with the French and Spanish metropoles.

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