Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… 1788, 1789, and 1790 (London: T. Cadell nd W. Davies, 1797). Résumé This entry discusses the various forms of public sociability in pre-revolutionary Saint Domingue and how they became increasingly racialised. Despite European ideas about … over race, and these tensions would explode in 1791, when the French Revolution reached the colony, and new forms of political sociability were introduced. 3 . Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution … reveal the depth of racial tensions brewing in the colony. These tensions would explode once the French Revolution, and political sociability, arrived after 1789. Were free people of colour to be allowed to gather in political assemblies to …
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