Includes bibliographical references and index.

Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Haitian Revolution / David Geggus -- Vestiges of the built landscape of pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue / Jacques de Cauna -- Saint-Domingue's free people of color and the tools of revolution / John D. Garrigus -- On the road to citizenship : the complex route to integration of the free people of color in the two capitals of Saint-Domingue / Dominique Rogers -- The trans-Atlantic king and imperial public spheres : everyday politics in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue / Gene E. Ogle -- The insurgents of 1791, their leaders, and the concept of independence / Yves Benot -- Avenging America : the politics of violence in the Haitian Revolution / Laurent Dubois -- "Fãetes de l'hymen, fãetes de la libertâe" : marriage, manhood, and emancipation in revolutionary Saint-Domingue / Elizabeth Colwill -- "The colonial vendâee" / Malick Ghachem -- The Saint-Domingue slave revolution and the unfolding of independence, 1791-1804 / Carolyn E. Fick -- The French Revolution's other island / Jeremy D. Popkin -- Speaking of Haiti : slavery, revolution, and freedom in Cuban slave testimony / Ada Ferrer -- The Saint-Dominguan refugees and American distinctiveness in the early years of the Haitian Revolution / Ashli White -- "Free upon higher ground" : Saint-Domingue slaves' suits for freedom in U. S. courts, 1792-1830 / Sue Peabody -- Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil, 1791-1850 / Joao Josâe Reis and Flavio dos Santos Gomes -- The specter of Saint-Domingue : American and French reactions to the Haitian Revolution / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall -- Representations of the Haitian Revolution in French literature / Lâeon-Franðcois Hoffmann -- Neoclassicism and the Haitian Revolution / Carlo Câelius.