You are all free: the Haitian Revolution and the abolition of slavery

Abstract

Introduction: the journee of 20 June 1793 in Cap Francais and the abolition of slavery 1. A colony in revolution 2. Municipal revolution in a colonial city 3. French Jacobins and Saint-Domingue colonists 4. Creating revolutionary government in the tropics 5. A model republican general 6. The powderkeg explodes 7. Freedom and fire 8. The road to general emancipation 9. Saint-Domingue in the United States 10. The decree of 16 Pluviose An II Conclusion.