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The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to survive horrific conditions. They built webs of networks between African and 'creole' runaways, slaves, and a small number of free people of color through rituals and marronnage - key aspects to building the racial solidarity that helped make the revolution successful. Analyzing underexplored archival sources and advertisements for fugitives from slavery, Crystal Eddins finds indications of collective consciousness and solidarity, unearthing patterns of resistance. The book fills an important gap in the existing literature on the Haitian Revolution. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Slave insurrections --- Social movements --- Group identity --- Blacks --- Rites and ceremonies --- Maroons --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnic identity. --- Race identity --- Haiti --- History --- Causes. --- Ethnology --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Fugitive slaves --- Cimarrónes --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Revolutions --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Slavery --- Social history --- Movements, Social --- Insurrections, etc. --- Ayiti --- Bohio --- Haichi --- Hayti --- Haytian Republic --- Quisqueya --- Repiblik Ayiti --- Repiblik d Ayiti --- Republic of Haiti --- République d'Haïti --- ハイチ --- هايتي --- Гаити --- Gaiti --- Saint-Domingue --- Black people --- Latin American history --- diaspora history --- Afro-Caribbean history --- Atlantic history --- Latin American studies --- sociology of race and ethnicity