Week 5.2: The Struggle for Independence, 1802-1806

Madsen Mompremier, Dessalines Ripping the White from the Flag (1995)
 

Reading:
A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, 114-140
The Haitian Constitution, 1805 (course packet--bring to class)
Painting: Madsen Mompremier, Dessalines Ripping the White from the Flag (1995)

Homework: While reading A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution we will be using the double journal entry activity. The full directions are listed on the handout here, but remember to write 2-3 sentences per entry and each entry should come from a different subheading in the assigned reading.

You will also need to print and bring The Haitian Constitution, 1805  which is located in your course packet. Reading this document before coming to class will make our course discussion that much better.

 

BONUS!
Watch the PBS Documentary Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (2009). The film provides a good overview of the Haitian Revolution that will help you read Slave Revolution in the Caribbean. Watch the movie and write a one paragraph summary about the film. The extra credit assignment will be worth 10 points and will be due next class.

Week 5.1: Toussaint Louverture in Power, 1798-1801

Reading:
Jeremy D. Popkin, A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, 90-113
Toussaint Louverture, From Constitution of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, 1801 (course packet--bring to class)

Homework: While reading A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution we will be using the double journal entry activity. The full directions are listed on the handout here, but remember to write 2-3 sentences per entry and each entry should come from a different subheading in the assigned reading.

You will also need to print and bring Toussaint Louverture's From Constitution of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue, 1801  which is located in your course packet. Reading this document before coming to class will make our course discussion that much better.  

Week 4.2: Republican Emancipation in Saint-Domingue, 1793-1798

Reading:
A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, 62-89

Homework: While reading A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution we will be using the double journal entry activity. The full directions are listed on the handout here, but remember to write 2-3 sentences per entry and each entry should come from a different subheading in the assigned reading.

Week 4.1: The Uprisings, 1791-1793

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson,
Belley, with the bust of the philosophe Raynal (1797)

Reading:
A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, 35-61
Julien Raimond's "Observations on the Origin and Progression of the White Colonists' Prejudice against Men of Color" (course packet--bring to class)
Painting: Abraham Burnias, The Linen Market Santo Domingo (ca. 1775)

Homework:
While reading A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution we will be using the double journal entry activity. The full directions are listed on the handout here, but remember to write 2-3 sentences per entry and each entry should come from a different subheading in the assigned reading.

You will also need to print and bring Julien Raimond's "Observations on the Origin and Progression of the White Colonists' Prejudice against Men of Color"  which is located in your course packet. Reading this document before coming to class will make our course discussion that much better.

Week 3.2: Colonial Society in a Revolutionary Era

Abraham Burnias, The Linen Market Santo Domingo (ca. 1775)

Reading:
Jeremy D. Popkin, A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution, 1-34
The Code Noir, 1685 (course packet--bring to class)
Médéric-Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Description . . . of the French Part of the Island of Saint-Domingue, 1797 (course packet--bring to class)


Homework:
While reading A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution we will be using the double journal entry activity. The full directions are listed on the handout here, but remember to write 2-3 sentences per entry and each entry should come from a different subheading in the assigned reading.

You will also need to print and bring The Code Noir and Description . . . of the French Part of the Island of Saint-Domingue, both of which are located in your course packet. Reading these documents before coming to class will make our course discussion that much better.

Week 3.1: Race and Enlightenment

Reading:
Immanuel Kant, "The Difference Between the Race" (PER 637-639)
Denis Diderot, "Who are you, then, to make slaves" (PER 640-644)
Thomas Jefferson, "On Indians and Negroes" (PER 657-668)
Laurent Dubois, "Why Haiti Should be at the Centre of the Age of Revolutions" (PDF)

 Study Questions
1. On what grounds do Kant and Jefferson advance the ill treatment of blacks? How does this differ from Diderot's insistance that slavery is evil? 

2. According to Dubois, why should Haiti be at the center of the age of revolutions? What is its importance to Atlantic and world history?

3. Annotate your copy of the Dubois article. I will be checking this in class. 

BONUS!

These videos from Crash Course in World History will give you the necessary context to understand our upcoming unit on the Haitian Revolution.  We will look at the first two in class, but I recommend reviewing them here.