David Geggus
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 529586 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Geggus |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Geggus |
| FIRMA | GEGGUS D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florida |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 240 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Awakening the Ashes
K ongomania and the H aitian R evolution
The article critiques the scholarly emphasis on the centrality of West-Central Africans in the Haitian Revolution. It argues that two highly influential articles published 30 years ago by John Thornton greatly exaggerated the presence of such “Congos” in the colony, and overstated that of Africans in general. Amplified in subsequent works by Thornton and others, this exaggeration has become the prevailing orthodoxy and the issue has gone entirely…
K ongomania R edux , T he H aitian R evolution
David Geggus offers a detailed response to the three critiques of his “Kongomania” article by John Thornton, Christina Mobley, and James Sweet. Centered on demographic statistics and their link to cultural influence, the rebuttal examines evidentiary support for various assertions and hypotheses. The debate ranges over the use of certain ethnonyms (Creole, Congo, Mondongue); the creation of Vodou; the significance of Baudry des Lozières's Vocabul…
Entrepôt of Revolutions
Racial Equality, Slavery, and Colonial Secession during the Constituent Assembly
The colonial question in the French Revolution involved three broad issues: self-government for France’s overseas possessions, civil rights for their free colored populations, and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery itself. This chapter is primarily concerned with the pursuit in France of racial equality and slave emancipation. The colonial question has received remarkably little attention from scholars of the French Revolution. The Cons…
The French Slave Trade
I N comparative studies of race and slavery, France's colonies often appear in an intermediate position between Iberian and Anglo-Saxon extremes. The institutions of the French colonies exhibited in attenuated form the Catholic absolutism of the Iberians, whereas the colonies' social structures closely resembled that of the North European colonies. Scholars who discuss colonial slave laws, the frequency with which slaves were freed, or racial int…
Black Spartacus
The Death of the French Atlantic
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fift…
Marronnage in Saint-Domingue (Haïti) http
Launched by the French Atlantic History Group some ten years ago, under the direction of Jean-Paul Le Glaunec and Léon Robichaud, the website Marronnage in Saint-Domingue (Haïti) is devoted to the study of fugitive slaves in the eighteenth-century Caribbean’s most important colony. (Derived from the Spanish cimarronaje, the spellings marronnage and marronage are used in French; “marronage” and “maroonage” are used in English. The term covers the …
Atrocity, Race, and Region in the Early Haitian Revolution
Set within a larger analysis of class relations in the Haitian Revolution, this is a microhistory that intersects with several important themes in the revolution: rumor, atrocity, the arming of slaves, race relations, and the origins and wealth of the free colored population. It is an empirical investigation of an obscure rebellion by free men of color in the Grande Anse region in 1791. Although the rebellion is obscure, it is associated with an …
Toussaint Louverture
Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
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The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed inclu…
Graham T. Nessler. An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom
Slave Rebellion During the Age of Revolution
Violent rebellion punctuated the history of African American slavery from its beginnings, but it was apparently never more prevalent than during the Age of Revolution. Although no one to my knowledge has attempted a complete census of slave revolts and conspiracies in the New World, it would seem that the decades from the 1770s to the 1840s witnessed the largest, the best known, and most frequent, both in Brazil and North America, as well as in t…
Alejandro E. Gómez. Le spectre de la Révolution noire
Since Eleazar Córdova-Bello published La independencia de Haití y su influencia en Hispanoamérica in 1967, studies of the Haitian Revolution's impact on the wider world have become increasingly common. None, however, has appeared in France, where enthusiasm for the “Atlantic turn” has been very muted and the term “Haitian Revolution” itself (as opposed to the more parochial “Saint Domingue Revolution”) has enjoyed little popularity. Alejandro E. …
The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective
Of all the Atlantic revolutions, the fifteen-year struggle that transformed French Saint-Domingue into independent Haiti produced the greatest degree of social and economic change, and most fully embodied the contemporary pursuit of freedom, equality, and independence. Between 1789 and 1804, the Haitian Revolution unfolded as a succession of major precedents: the winning of colonial representation in a metropolitan assembly, the ending of racial …
The Caribbean in the Age of Revolution
Revolutions in the Atlantic World
Wim Klooster has written the first comparative study of the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions. Although the concept of Atlantic revolutions goes back to the 1950s, neither the field’s pioneers, Jacques Godechot and Robert Palmer, nor later exponents like Peggy Liss and Lester Langley included all four conflicts within their frame of analysis. In less than 180 pages of text, Klooster provides succinct overviews of each in…
The Arming of Slaves in the Haitian Revolution
Saint Domingue, the site of Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803, was one of the largest and most productive slave societies during the eighteenth century. In 1791, the French colony was a major supplier of sugar and coffee to the Atlantic market. At the time of the uprisings, it was home to about half a million slaves, 30,000 whites, and a similar number of free people of color. The slave revolt ended both slavery and French colonial rule. More than …
Haitian Revolutionary Studies
Slave society in the sugar plantation zones of Saint Domingue and the revolution of 1791–93
(1999). Slave society in the sugar plantation zones of Saint Domingue and the revolution of 1791–93. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 31-46
Sugar and Slavery, Family and Race
A Turbulent Time
Journal Article A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Ed. by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xvi, 262 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33247-8.) Get access Alfred Hunt Alfred Hunt Purchase College State University of New York Purchase, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March…
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fift…
Sex Ratio, Age and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Slave Trade
This article examines the age and sex composition of the Atlantic slave trade in the belief it was of considerable significance in shaping black society in both Africa and the Americas. Focusing on the French slave trade, two main samples are analysed. One is composed of 177,000 slaves transported in French ships during the years 1714–92, which is taken from the Répertoire des expéditions négrières of Jean Mettas and Serge Daget. The other, deriv…
Slavery, War, and Revolution
The French Slave Trade
I N comparative studies of race and slavery, France's colonies often appear in an intermediate position between Iberian and Anglo-Saxon extremes. The institutions of the French colonies exhibited in attenuated form the Catholic absolutism of the Iberians, whereas the colonies' social structures closely resembled that of the North European colonies. Scholars who discuss colonial slave laws, the frequency with which slaves were freed, or racial int…
A Turbulent Time
Bondmen and Rebels
On the eve of the Haitian revolution
(1985). On the eve of the Haitian revolution: Slave runaways in Saint Domingue in the year 1790. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 112-128
A Turbulent Time
Journal Article A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Ed. by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. xvi, 262 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33247-8.) Get access Alfred Hunt Alfred Hunt Purchase College State University of New York Purchase, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March…
The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century
The British government and the Saint Domingue slave revolt,1791—1793
The British government and the Saint Domingue slave revolt,1791—1793 Get access DAVID GEGGUS DAVID GEGGUS University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXIX, April 1981, Pages 285–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXIX.285 Published: 01 April 1981
Slavery and African Life
The Enigma of Jamaica in the 1790s
The Cost of Pitt's Caribbean Campaigns, 1793–1798
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Haitian Voodoo in the Eighteenth Century
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The French and Haitian Revolutions, and resistance to slavery in the Americas
Cet article offre un aperçu des conspirations et des révoltes d'esclaves aux Amériques pendant la cinquantaine d'années suivant le début de la Révolution française. Selon la thèse avancée par Eugène Genovese dans Front Rébellion to Révolution, cette période témoigna l'émergence d'un nouveau type d'insurrection d'esclaves vraiment révolutionnaire et de caractère bourgeois-démocratique. L'influence des Révolutions française et haïtienne sur la rési…
The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective
Of all the Atlantic revolutions, the fifteen-year struggle that transformed French Saint-Domingue into independent Haiti produced the greatest degree of social and economic change, and most fully embodied the contemporary pursuit of freedom, equality, and independence. Between 1789 and 1804, the Haitian Revolution unfolded as a succession of major precedents: the winning of colonial representation in a metropolitan assembly, the ending of racial …
Esclaves et gens de couleur libres de la Martinique pendant l'époque révolutionnaire napoléonienne
Sex Ratio and Ethnicity
I feel I should make clear that the ethnicity data in my article were intended only to shed light on the question of sex ratio. They do not provide an accurate reflection of the ethnic make-up of the eighteenth-century French slave trade, nor even of the trade to Saint Domingue. For this reason, I would hesitate to compare them, as Professor Lovejoy does, to Patrick Manning's projections based on decennial samples of plantation papers. The relati…
Front His Most catholic Majesty to the godless Republic
Point décisif de la révolution haïtienne, la décision du leader noir Toussaint Louverture d'abandonner ses alliés espagnols et de rallier à la République française est restée un des plus obscurs événements de ces années où se déroula la destruction de Saint-Domingue. Les histoires de la Révolution haïtienne révèlent une grande confusion en ce qui concerne les raisons de la volte-face, sa date, et la manière dont elle fut accomplie. Son rapport av…
Slave society in the sugar plantation zones of Saint Domingue and the revolution of 1791–93
(1999). Slave society in the sugar plantation zones of Saint Domingue and the revolution of 1791–93. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 31-46
The naming of Haiti
When St. Domingue declared its independence it was renamed Haiti, an Amerindian name. Author explores what the founding fathers of Haitian independence might have known about the Amerindian past in the Caribbean and in South America. He also raises questions about ethnicity and identity in 19th-c. Haiti
The Making of Haiti
Jamaica and the Saint Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1793
Once the two largest sugar colonies in the slave-owning Caribbean, Jamaica and Haiti trace their separate paths of development back to the revolutionary struggles of the 1790's. While the French colony of Saint Domingue was transformed in a way few societies have ever been, Jamaica remained seemingly untouched by the conflagration that consumed its neighbour. When the slaves and free coloureds of Saint Domingue rebelled in the autumn of 1791, Jam…
Front His Most catholic Majesty to the godless Republic
Point décisif de la révolution haïtienne, la décision du leader noir Toussaint Louverture d'abandonner ses alliés espagnols et de rallier à la République française est restée un des plus obscurs événements de ces années où se déroula la destruction de Saint-Domingue. Les histoires de la Révolution haïtienne révèlent une grande confusion en ce qui concerne les raisons de la volte-face, sa date, et la manière dont elle fut accomplie. Son rapport av…
The British government and the Saint Domingue slave revolt,1791—1793
The British government and the Saint Domingue slave revolt,1791—1793 Get access DAVID GEGGUS DAVID GEGGUS University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXIX, April 1981, Pages 285–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXIX.285 Published: 01 April 1981
Jamaica and the Saint Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1793
Once the two largest sugar colonies in the slave-owning Caribbean, Jamaica and Haiti trace their separate paths of development back to the revolutionary struggles of the 1790's. While the French colony of Saint Domingue was transformed in a way few societies have ever been, Jamaica remained seemingly untouched by the conflagration that consumed its neighbour. When the slaves and free coloureds of Saint Domingue rebelled in the autumn of 1791, Jam…
The Cost of Pitt's Caribbean Campaigns, 1793–1798
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Slavery, War, and Revolution
Slavery, War, and Revolution
Unexploited Sources for the History of the Haitian Revolution
One of the greatest servile rebellions and the sole successful slave revolt in world history, the insurrection that destroyed France's richest colony and led to the creation of Haiti has been the subject of a great deal of writing and controversy, but relatively little basic research. The destruction of Saint Domingue and the career of the black leader Toussaint Louverture have inspired innumerable popular and partisan works, but at the level of …
On the eve of the Haitian revolution
(1985). On the eve of the Haitian revolution: Slave runaways in Saint Domingue in the year 1790. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 112-128
Haiti in Caribbean Context
The Era of the French Revolution
Bondmen and Rebels
The Enigma of Jamaica in the 1790s
Racial Equality, Slavery, and Colonial Secession during the Constituent Assembly
THE COLONIAL QUESTION IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION involved three broad issues: self-government for France's overseas possessions, civil rights for their free colored populations, and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery itself. This article is primarily concerned with the pursuit in France of racial equality and slave emancipation, but it is difficult to understand that effort without reference to developments in the colonies, as well as to …
Sex Ratio and Ethnicity
I feel I should make clear that the ethnicity data in my article were intended only to shed light on the question of sex ratio. They do not provide an accurate reflection of the ethnic make-up of the eighteenth-century French slave trade, nor even of the trade to Saint Domingue. For this reason, I would hesitate to compare them, as Professor Lovejoy does, to Patrick Manning's projections based on decennial samples of plantation papers. The relati…
The French and Haitian Revolutions, and resistance to slavery in the Americas
Cet article offre un aperçu des conspirations et des révoltes d'esclaves aux Amériques pendant la cinquantaine d'années suivant le début de la Révolution française. Selon la thèse avancée par Eugène Genovese dans Front Rébellion to Révolution, cette période témoigna l'émergence d'un nouveau type d'insurrection d'esclaves vraiment révolutionnaire et de caractère bourgeois-démocratique. L'influence des Révolutions française et haïtienne sur la rési…
Sex Ratio, Age and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Slave Trade
This article examines the age and sex composition of the Atlantic slave trade in the belief it was of considerable significance in shaping black society in both Africa and the Americas. Focusing on the French slave trade, two main samples are analysed. One is composed of 177,000 slaves transported in French ships during the years 1714–92, which is taken from the Répertoire des expéditions négrières of Jean Mettas and Serge Daget. The other, deriv…
The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century
Haitian Voodoo in the Eighteenth Century
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Voodoo and Politics in Haiti
Preface - Introduction: Religion and Politics - The Evolution of Colonial Voodoo from African to Slave Religions - Marronage and Voodoo - Revolutionary Voodoo Leaders - Secret Societies - Pilgrimage, Voodoo and Politics - Politics and Voodoo During the Duvalier Era - Public Policies and National Prospects - Notes - References Cited - Index
Gabriel Debien (1906-1990)
Slavery and African Life
The Making of Haiti
The Faces of the Gods
Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices. Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European religious traditions onto African stock, but as a true c…
Esclaves et gens de couleur libres de la Martinique pendant l'époque révolutionnaire napoléonienne
The naming of Haiti
When St. Domingue declared its independence it was renamed Haiti, an Amerindian name. Author explores what the founding fathers of Haitian independence might have known about the Amerindian past in the Caribbean and in South America. He also raises questions about ethnicity and identity in 19th-c. Haiti
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