You are warmly invited to the floowing seminar on the Haitian Revolution on Wednesday 21st October:
Antonio Pinto, ISA Visiting Doctoral Fellow ,"The consequences of the Saint-Domingue revolution on the Spanish Caribbean: Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, 1791-1873"
21 October 2009, 17:00 - 19:30
Venue : Room G34 (Senate House, Ground Floor)
South Block, Senate House
Ground Floor
Abstract:
The consequences of the Saint-Domingue revolution on the Spanish Caribbean: Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, 1791-1873
Antonio Jesús Pinto, ISA Visiting Doctoral Fellow, Wednesday 21 October 2009
Racism and fear dominated relations between blacks and whites in slave plantation societies of the Americas. Planters insisted on the inferiority of blacks and used this to justify their enslavement; while slaves created their own cultures of resistance against abuse. The fear was exacerbated by the 1791 outbreak of revolution in Saint-Domingue, and further intensified as slave revolts became endemic throughout the nineteenth-century Caribbean. Colonial authorities and plantation owners wielded violent repression of black conspiracy, and this fostered greater slave opposition to the colonial and planter class, in turn spiralling into more violent revolts. The focus of this paper is on the aftermath of 1791 in the Spanish Caribbean territories of Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, where, it is argued, racism and fear combined to create a particular ethos of violence that was to become institutionalized and shape future race relations.
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