An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom

“An important, highly original account of the impact of revolutionary activity on two distinct late-18th-century slave societies that shared the same island: the French colony of Saint-Domingue (renamed Haiti in 1804) in western Hispaniola and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo in eastern Hispaniola. Highly recommended.” — CHOICE

“Represents an important contribution to Dominican national history and Atlantic studies of emancipation simultaneously.”—New West Indian Guide

“This first full-scale account of revolutionary Hispaniola casts a brilliant new light on the complex politics of the Haitian Revolution, which Nessler persuasively reinterprets as an insular, as well as circum-Caribbean, phenomenon. An engaging, lucid, and artfully written work of historical scholarship.” — Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom demonstrates a truly original point: that events in Saint-Domingue/Haiti during the revolutionary era were influenced at every turn by events in the other half of the island of Hispaniola, the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo — and vice versa. This is a major contribution to the scholarship on the Haitian Revolution and to the larger story of the struggle over slavery in the American world.” — Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky