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Organic Social Movement: Antecedents To The Haitian Revolugion

Thursday, July 17, 2014: 8:50 AM
Room: 315
Oral Presentation
Crystal EDDINS , African American & African Studies, Sociology, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, EAST LANSING, MI
Crystal Eddins’ paper is situated directly within sociologist Ruth Hamilton’s propositions about African Diaspora populations as subjects of their own reality. She highlights ways in which 18th century Africans and African descendants employed their organic social formations, specifically religious ones to organize rebellious antecedents to the Haitian Revolution.