The French and Haitian Revolutions, and resistance to slavery in the Americas : an overview

@inproceedings{Geggus1989TheFA,
  title={The French and Haitian Revolutions, and resistance to slavery in the Americas : an overview},
  author={David P. Geggus},
  year={1989}
}
Cet article offre un apercu des conspirations et des revoltes d'esclaves aux Ameriques pendant la cinquantaine d'annees suivant le debut de la Revolution francaise. Selon la these avancee par Eugene Genovese dans Front Rebellion to Revolution, cette periode temoigna l'emergence d'un nouveau type d'insurrection d'esclaves vraiment revolutionnaire et de caractere bourgeois-democratique. L'influence des Revolutions francaise et haitienne sur la resistance a l'esclavage semble bien avoir ete assez… 
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