In this episode of our series on the Haitian Revolution, we watch as revolution breaks out in France in 1789. Its aftershocks soon reach the colony of Saint-Domingue, where each of the colony’s social/economic/racial classes begin to fight amongst one another in hopes of seeing their respective visions of the revolution become a reality.

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Works Cited

Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: the Story of the Haitian Revolution. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Dubois, Laurent. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. Metropolitan Books, 2012

Fick, Carolyn. The Making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. The University of Tennessee Press, 2004. 

Geggus, David. The Haitian Revolution: a Documentary History. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2014.

James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Vintage Books, 1989.