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Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Updated Edition) by Laurent Dubois Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-674-01826-5 / 0674018265 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01826-6 / 9780674018266 The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French a |