By Jeremy D. Popkin
Numerous firsthand narratives of those occasions survived, yet their valuable insights into the interval have lengthy languished in obscurity—until now. In Facing Racial Revolution, Jeremy D. Popkin reveals those files and provides excerpts from greater than a dozen debts written by way of white colonists attempting to come to grips with an international that had all of sudden disintegrated. those dramatic writings supply us our so much direct portrayal of the activities of the revolutionaries, vividly depicting encounters with the uprising’s leaders—Toussaint Louverture, Boukman, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines—as good as placing faces on some of the nameless individuals during this epochal second. Popkin’s specialist observation on every one choice offers the required historical past concerning the authors and the incidents they describe, whereas additionally addressing the complicated query of the witnesses’ reliability and urging the reader to contemplate the results of the narrators’ perspectives.
Along with the yankee and French revolutions, the start of Haiti assisted in shaping the fashionable international. The strong, relocating, and infrequently troubling tales amassed in Facing Racial Revolution considerably extend our knowing of this momentous event.
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