Haitian Revolution
Write an essay about how different people in Saint-Domingue understood freedom, freedom as a concept, an idea. Base your essay completely on the primary sources in Geggus’ book (be careful to use the documents themselves, not Geggus’ introduction to each document or his general introduction). Try and include the perspectives of people who were or had been enslaved at one time. Cite between 4 and 7 documents. For this paper you need to put aside the idea that we somehow understand what freedom is – do not cite a dictionary definition of freedom – and that the ideas of these people were somehow wrong. You need to grapple with their ideas on their terms as much as you can. These people had ideas about freedom as a philosophical/political concept – write about that. You can track how these ideas changed over time, how they stayed the same, or how they were all different despite the changing world around them.Write an essay about how different people in Saint-Domingue understood freedom, freedom as a concept, an idea. [unique_solution]Base your essay completely on the primary sources in Geggus’ book (be careful to use the documents themselves, not Geggus’ introduction to each document or his general introduction). Try and include the perspectives of people who were or had been enslaved at one time. Cite between 4 and 7 documents. For this paper you need to put aside the idea that we somehow understand what freedom is – do not cite a dictionary definition of freedom – and that the ideas of these people were somehow wrong. You need to grapple with their ideas on their terms as much as you can. These people had ideas about freedom as a philosophical/political concept – write about that. You can track how these ideas changed over time, how they stayed the same, or how they were all different despite the changing world around them.Write an essay about how different people in Saint-Domingue understood freedom, freedom as a concept, an idea. Base your essay completely on the primary sources in Geggus’ book (be careful to use the documents themselves, not Geggus’ introduction to each document or his general introduction). Try and include the perspectives of people who were or had been enslaved at one time. Cite between 4 and 7 documents. For this paper you need to put aside the idea that we somehow understand what freedom is – do not cite a dictionary definition of freedom – and that the ideas of these people were somehow wrong. You need to grapple with their ideas on their terms as much as you can. These people had ideas about freedom as a philosophical/political concept – write about that. You can track how these ideas changed over time, how they stayed the same, or how they were all different despite the changing world around them.