La revolución negra en Saint Domingue y sus efectos en la guerra racial de las Antillas y Tierra Firme, 1789 – 1797

Abstract

This article explains the impact of the French revolution in the colony of Saint Domingue from 1789 until 1797. Includes the debates that took place in the National Assembly related to the expansion of citizenship to the mixture breeds who received the same rights as the whites, the beginning of the civil war in the French portion of the island between the different parties and its degradation until the uprising of the slaves and the international warfare against Great Britain and Spain.
In the same argumentative line the author points out the dispositives and strategies employed by the Spanish authorities, peninsular and colonial, to contain the threading effects of racial war, provoked by an eventual black revolt in the big Antilles and Mainland, places like Saint Domingue, that were dedicated to a plantation economy, maintaining a numeric preponderance of African origin slaves in front of the white population.
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