HIS231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Saint-Domingue, Haitian Revolution, Industrial Revolution
Document Summary
01/21 lecture: colonial saint domingue - the haitian revolution. Empire intersects with both local and transnational policies. The haitian revolution is arguably the most important event in new world history since. Slaves were informed by african ideas of struggle, especially political struggle in west. They paid attention to french revolution vocabulary - they translated language of enslaved people into a language that the french imperial authorities could not ignore. Renderings of the first contact between europeans and indigenous people on saint. The south and west had few plantations and was resentful of imperial control. They have a significant free black population. Very few free people of colour travelled back to france, and those that did were treated as a novelty. Coffee is the main crop in the west and south. Most coffee planters were free people of colour - root of middle class life on st. domingue. Doesn"t require large labour forces (unlike sugar).
