The Cry of Vertieres: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti (McGill-Queen's French Atlantic Worlds Series)
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The Cry of Vertieres: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti (McGill-Queen's French Atlantic Worlds Series)

The Cry of Vertieres: Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti (McGill-Queen's French Atlantic Worlds Series)

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Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec (Author) Jonathan Kaplansky (Contributor)  

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This book tells the story of the Battle of Vertieres, fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by Napoleon. The battle marked the culmination of a thirteen-year revolutionary struggle to end slavery and the dawn of an independent Haiti. Yet despite its pivotal importance to the history of Haiti, France, and the Americas, the Battle of Vertieres has been struck from the record. The Cry of Vertieres is the first book-length study of the battle, drawing from an array of sources including military correspondence, Haitian literature, art, and popular music. The event itself is recounted in vivid detail: it is a dramatic story of a volunteer army of former slaves, seeking the promises of freedom and citizenship held out by the revolution, defeating a colonial power determined to re-enslave them. The book also examines why the history of the battle has been suppressed in France - an act of erasure of a humiliating defeat - and why it remains fragile even in Haiti. Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec explains that today Vertieres is both a key lieu de memoire that embodies reconciliation, pride, and strength for the Haitian people, and a figure of speech exploited by politicians to reinforce their power. Describing a decisive yet largely forgotten moment in the revolutionary history of the Americas, The Cry of Vertieres makes an essential contribution to the complex subjects of race, memory, colonialism, and cultural nationalism in present-day France and Haiti. 17 photos, 1 map
Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, professor of history at the Universite de Sherbrooke, is the co-director of the digital project Marronnage in the Atlantic World: Sources and Life Trajectories. Jonathan Kaplansky is a literary translator. He lives in Montreal.
  • Contributor: Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
  • Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780228001409
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 454
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Release Date: 2020-05-21
  • Series: McGill-Queen's French Atlantic Worlds Series
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, professor of history at the Universite de Sherbrooke, is the co-director of the digital project Marronnage in the Atlantic World: Sources and Life Trajectories. Jonathan Kaplansky is a literary translator. He lives in Montreal.

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