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Supplemental Readings
“Maroon Nation”
- Chapter 6 Topics (Maroon Economy: Subsistence Production, Cash Crops, & Tax Evasion)
- The End of Sugar Exports
- Sugar in Early Haiti
- King Coffee
- Money Grows on Trees: Dyewood * Precious Hardwoods in Postemancipation Haiti
- The Freedom of a Full Stomach
- Haitian Crypto Culture
- Living Off the Land
- Commerce, Cottage Industry, & Counterfeit
- Epilogue
Supplemental Readings
“Maroon Nation”
- Chapter 5 Topics
- Land & Freedom
- Land reform for the Elite
- Land reform for the masses
- The Decommodification of Rural Land
- Decommodification is defined as exit from the labor market with little or no loss of. income, the land and labor, therefore, are protected from capitalistic forces. That’s what the transactions from the lakou are.
- The Boyer Era (in which we smack him around a bit)
- Republican repression
- Renewed Instability (1843-48)
“Maroon Nation”
- Chapter 4 Topics
- Early incidents of disorder
- Dessalines War on Vodou
- Maroons & Runaways in Early Haiti
- The Maroon Secret Societies
- The Haitian Civil War
Supplemental Readings
- Yanique Edmond et al, “The Lakou System: A Cultural, Ecological Analysis of Mothering in Rural Haiti ” [article]
- John K Thornton, “ ‘I Am the Subject of the King of Congo’: African Political Ideology & the Haitian Revolution.” [article]
- Chris Davis, “Before They Were Haitians: Examining Evidence for Kongolese Influence on the Haitian Revolution”
Citations
- Neil Roberts, “Freedom as Marronage” [book]
- Robert Lacerte, “The Evolution of Land and Labor in the Haitian Revolution, 1791–1820,” Americas 34, no. 4 (1978): 456. [article]
- Julia Gaffield, “The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy,” [book]
- Jeremy Popkin, “Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Norbert Thoret, and the Violent Aftermath of the Haitian Declaration of
- Johnhenry Gonzales, “Maroon Nation”
Despotism & Forced Labor
- Despotism & Forced Labor: Dessalines & the State-directed Plantation Economy
- The Great estate in early Haiti
- Population Loss & Labor
- Slaves in the Land of Liberty
- Roundups & Forced Labor Under Dessalines
- The Carte de Sûreté: State-directed Class Formation
- Punishment, Prison, & Forced Labor in Haiti
- The Specter of Reenslavement
- Emancipation w/o Free-Labor Ideology
| Time Period | St Domingue | Guadeloupe | French Guiana | Martinique | Region |
| 1700-1725 | 32,980 | 523 | 1,194 | 27,710 | |
| 1725 – 1750 | 107,229 | 581 | 1,520 | 49,202 | |
| 1750 – 1775 | 218,800 | 23,649 | 2,830 | 28,194 | |
| 1775 – 1791 | 301,320 | 2,271 | 2,722 | 4,967 | |
| Total: Colony | 660,329 | 27,024 | 8276 | 110,073 | 805,702 (Total/Region) |
(source: Transatlantic Slave Trade Database)
Main Book
Gaffield, Julia: Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition After Revolution (Chap 2)
Supplementary Reading
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Supplementary Readings
