Blackburn, Robin — The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 (1988) Source Information

Blackburn, Robin — The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 (1988) Source Information Author: Robin Blackburn (b. 1940) Full Title: The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848 Publisher: Verso / New Left Books Year: 1988 Type: Secondary Source — Comparative Atlantic History / Marxist Interpretation Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: blackburn overthrow.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — blackburn overthrow.txt Review pass: In progress (2026-03-26) — Wave 1 backbone-source pass, centered on Chapters V-VI and the Atlantic abolition frame around Saint-Domingue/Haiti Chapter notes: blackburn overthrow ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created revolutionary emancipationism, french abolition decree 1794, and victor hugues; strengthened abolition, haitian revolution, and guadeloupe Overview Blackburn's book is one of the vault's strongest sources for seeing the Haitian Revolution inside the wider overthrow of colonial slavery, not as an isolated miracle. It is less useful than the tighter Haiti monographs for fine-grained local chronology, but it is exceptionally good at naming the larger political formation that made 1793-1794 legible: the temporary convergence of Black insurgent struggle, Jacobin republican state power, and imperial war.