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DESCRIPTION:The LLDRL speaker series and 9I制作厂免费 Seminar on Slavery and the 
 Law present an Author-meets-Readers session with Professor Carolyn Fick.\n
 \nPlease note that this conference takes place inside Professor Adelle Bla
 ckett's Slavery and the Law course (LAWG 517).\n\nThe Making of Haiti: The
  Saint Domingue Revolution from Below: In 1789 the French colony of Saint 
 Domingue was the wealthiest and most flourishing of the Caribbean slave co
 lonies\, its economy based on the forced labor of more than half a million
  black slaves raided from their African homelands.聽 The revolt of this und
 erclass in 1791鈥攖he only successful slave rebellion in history鈥攇ained the 
 slaves their freedom and set in motion the colony's struggle for independe
 nce as the black republic of Haiti. In this pioneering study\, Carolyn E. 
 Fick argues that the repressed and uneducated slaves were the principal ar
 chitects both of their own freedom and of the successful movement toward n
 ational independence.聽\n\nAbout the author\n\nCarolyn Fick is an associate
  professor of History at Concordia University\, where she teaches seminars
  in Atlantic History and the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions\, as 
 well as courses in Haitian history from the colonial and revolutionary per
 iods to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of The M
 aking of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below (1990\, Univ. Ten
 nessee Press)\, which has now been translated into French: Ha茂ti: Naissanc
 e d鈥檜ne Nation.\n\nHer other publications include an essay on Toussaint Lo
 uverture鈥檚 foreign policy for The Haitian Revolution and the Early U.S. an
 d another more comprehensive essay on the trajectory of Saint Domingue fro
 m slave colony to nation state in New Countries in the Americas. She is a 
 participating research scholar in the inter-university French Atlantic His
 tory Group/Groupe d鈥檋istoire de l鈥橝tlantique fran莽ais\, based in Montreal 
 at 9I制作厂免费.\n\nProfessor Fick's visit is sponsored by the Labour
  Law and Development Research Laboratory.\n
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LOCATION:Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, 
 QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Carolyn Fick: The Making of Haiti
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