Slavery in the Age of Revolutions

Slavery in the Age of Revolutions

Required:
 Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004).
 Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris, Slavery in New York (2005), Ch. 3-4.
Recommended:
 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1975).
 Sylvia R. Frey, Water From The Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age (1991).
 C. L. R. James, The Black Jaobins: Toussaint L’Overture and the Santo Domingo Revolution (1963).
 Carolyn Fick, The Making of the Saint Domingue Revolution from Below (1990).

To Think About ~ How were slaves effected by revolutionary ideas of republicanism? What impact did the American Revolution have for enslaved peoples? Who participated in the Haitian Revolution and why?