El síndrome de Saint-Domingue. Percepciones y sensibilidades de la Revolución Haitiana en el Gran Caribe (1791-1814)

The fear towards Haiti is a recurrent subject in the Caribbean historiography dealing with the Era of Revolutions. This has been defined as the fear felt by the white people, members of the region's proslavery societies, contemplating the possibility of loosing their proprieties or being killed by rebellious black men, as it happened to others like them during the revolution in Haiti. In this article, this phenomenon is taken into consideration as being an integral part of a wider spectre of signs in which different expressions of «anxiety», generated by the situation itself, are obvious. According to the «logic of fear», we have defined this manifestations as a whole as a syndrome due to their common «traumatic» origin associated with the events in Saint-Domingue. In the same way, the scale of analysis widens towards the Great Caribbean (specially taking into consideration Cuba's, Jamaica's, Virginia's and Venezuela's cases) in order to supply this study with a richer survey of different ethno social realities, conceived through comparison

Anxiety · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Caribbean island · Epistemology · Historiography · Humanities · Latin Americans · Phenomenon · Political science · Psychiatry · SAINT · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology