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| Other authors / contributors: | Annie Burr Lewis Fund sponsor
Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund sponsor
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| ISBN: | 9780300245554
0300245556
9780300230086
0300230087
9780300230086
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| Notes: | Published with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund ; Published with assistance from the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund
Includes bibliographical references and index.
online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 1, 2021)
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| Summary: | "Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country's early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent Haiti focused on crop production, land reform, and the unauthorized rural settlements devised by former slaves of the colonial plantation system. Analyzing the country's turbulent transition from the most profitable and exploitative slave colony of the eighteenth century to a relatively free society of small farmers, Gonzalez narrates the origins of institutions such as informal open-air marketplaces and rural agrarian compounds known as lakou. Drawing on seldom-studied primary sources to contribute to a growing body of early Haitian scholarship, he argues that Haiti's legacy of runaway communities and land conflict was as formative as the Haitian Revolution in developing the country's characteristic agrarian, mercantile, and religious institutions"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Gonzalez, Johnhenry. Maroon nation. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300230086
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