Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti

A reframing of post-independence Haitian history arguing that the Haitian Revolution did not end in 1804 but continued for four decades as a conflict between the new state and the laboring population over land and the plantation economy. Gonzalez's central thesis is that the Haitian peasantry constituted a "maroon nation" — a population that, in direct continuity with the runaway slave tradition of colonial Saint-Domingue, fled forced labor, squatted on mountain land, and evaded state control, producing not chaos but the deliberate construction of a counter-plantation system of smallholder subsistence farming, coffee cultivation, and mutual savings institutions.