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

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256148

CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I Homelands, Diaspora, and Slave Society
1 “We Have a False Idea of the Negro”: Legacies of Resistance and the African Past
2 In the Shadow of Death

PART II Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Networks and Ties, Geographies and Space
3“God Knows What I Do”: Ritual Free Spaces
4 Mobilizing Marronnage: Race, Collective Identity, and Solidarity
5 Marronnage as Reclamation
6 Geographies of Subversion: Maroons, Borders, and Empire

PART III Collective Action and Revolution
7 “We Must Stop the Progress of Marronnage”: Repertoires and Repression
8 Voices of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution Begins

Conclusion
Notes
References
Index