Saint Domingue on the eve of revolution : Greed and decadence ; The plantation hierarchy ; A slave trader's view ; Plantation slaves ; The Lejeune atrocity case ; Racial discrimination: official ; Racial discrimination: unofficial
Slave resistance : Satirical song ; Urban slave culture: report of the Chamber of Agriculture ; Macandal the poisoner ; Vodou and petro ; Vodou and the underworld ; Prophet of crook?: The real Don Pedro ; Slaves on strike ; Day-to-day resistance on a mountain plantation ; Runaway advertisements
The race and slavery questions in the French National Assembly : The Enlightenment, race, and slavery ; The founding of the Friends of the Blacks ; Fear of emancipation and revolt ; A free man of color's complaints ; Free people of color organize ; The Abbé Grégoire's violent rhetoric ; Ogé addresses the Planter's Club ; Support from the provincial Jacobin Clubs ; The May 1791 debates
The fight for racial equality in Saint Domingue : Early atrocities ; Free coloreds petition the Assembly of the North ; The rebellion of Ogé and Chavanne ; The sentencing of Ogé and Chavanne ; The August 1791 rising in the west ; The peace treaty of 19-23 October 1791 ; Call to arms of the free men of color
The slave insurrection : Slaves' reaction to the French Revolution ; Planning the rebellion: the Lenormand meeting ; The Bois Caïman ceremony ; The uprising begins ; The slave insurents make demands ; A White captive's experiences ; The slave leaders negotiate ; The negotiations break down ; Women in rebellion ; Arming slaves: the Caïmittes rebellion ; Black tactics, White responses
Slave emancipation : The colonists fear of Sonthonax, September 1792 ; Sonthonax's early advocacy of slave emancipation ; Abolitionist reaction to the slave insurrection ; Spain's offer to the insurgent slaves ; The emancipation proclamation of 29 August 1793 ; The Black auxiliaries of Carlos IV ; Royalism, republicanism, and freedom ; France abolishes slavery ; Belley, the Black deputy ; The Fort Dauphin massacre
The rise of Toussaint Louverture : Toussaint's early life ; Toussaint the royalist ; Toussaint the abolitionist ; Rivalry with Biassou ; Toussaint and Laveaux ; Toussaint and the ex-slaves ; A British soldier's diary ; The fall of Port-au-Prince, May 1798 ; The expulsion of Sonthonax
The government of Toussaint Louverture : Toussaint confronts his critics ; Toussaint and agent Hédouville ; The war of the south ; Plantation labor in the southeast ; Toussaint's labor decree ; A British visitor ; Roume's praise for the cultivators ; A colonist's complaints ; Toussaint Louverture's constitution, July 1801 ; Moyse's rebellion ; Proclamation, 4 Frimaire X
The war of independence : Bonaparte on slave emancipation ; General Leclerc and the restoration of slavery ; Toussaint in captivity ; U.S. newspaper reports ; Collaboration and revolt ; Atrocities ; The Declaration of Independence, 1 January 1804 ; Dessaline's proclamation, 28 April 1804
Overseas reactions : Jamaican slaves ; Popular heroes in Cuba ; Troublesome migrants in Puerto Rico ; Jamaican song ; Venezuelan song ; Brazilian militiamen ; Aponte's rebellion, Cuba ; Danger and opportunity ; Greed and fear in Cuba ; "Rights of Black men": Abraham Bishop, 1791 ; Hispaniola, a poem / Samuel Whitchurch ; An anguished Thomas Jefferson ; Simón Bolívar: the disillusioned idealist ; The impact of independence ; Charles Brockden Brown: the Haitian peril, abolition, and race ; Race and barbarism: an early historian ; " To Toussaint L'Ouverture" / William Wordsworth ; Lecture on Haiti / Frederick Douglass.
