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You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery

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The abolitions of slavery within the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue in 1793 and in revolutionary France in 1794 were the first dramatic blows against an institution that had shaped the Atlantic world for three centuries and affected the lives of millions of people. According to extensive archival research, You Are All Free provides the first complete account of the dramatic events that led to these epochal decrees, and in addition to the destruction of Cap Francais, the richest city within the French Caribbean, and to the first refugee crisis in the US. Taking issue with in advance accounts that claim that Saint-Domingue’s slaves freed themselves, or that French revolutionaries abolished slavery as a part of a general campaign for universal human rights, the book shows that abolition was once the results of complex and regularly paradoxical political struggles on both sides of the Atlantic that have continuously been misunderstood by in advance scholars.

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