A Colony of Citizens : Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

Acknowledgments vii Maps and Illustrations xii Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1(22) PART I: PROPHECY, REVOLT, & EMANCIPATION, 1787-1794 Chapter 1: Insurrection and the Language of Rights 23(7) Chapter 2: A Social Cartography 30(55) Chapter 3: Prophetic Rumor 85(39) Chapter 4: The Insurgent Republic 124(31) Chapter 5: The Arrival of Emancipation 155(16) PART II: THE MEANING OF CITIZENSHIP, 1794-1798 Chapter 6: Making Slaves Citizens 171(18) Chapter 7: Worthy of the Nation 189(33) Chapter 8: War and Emancipation 222(27) Chapter 9: The Mark of Freedom 249(28) Chapter 10: The Revolution's Spiral 277(31) Chapter 11: The Promise of Revolution 308(9) PART III: THE BOUNDARIES OF THE REPUBLIC, 1798-1804 Chapter 12: The Road to Matouba 317(7) Chapter 13: Defending the Republic 324(25) Chapter 14: The New Imperial Order 349(25) Chapter 15: "Vivre libre ou mourir!" 374(28) Chapter 16: The Exiled Republic 402(21) Epilogue 423(16) Chronology 439(4) Glossary of French Terms 443(2) Index 445