The development of creole society on the colonial frontier -- Race and class in creole society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s -- Freedom, slavery, and the French colonial state -- Reform and revolt after the seven years' war -- Citizenship and racism in the new public sphere -- The rising economic power of free people of color in the 1780s -- Proving free colored virtue -- Free people of color in the Southern peninsula and the origins of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1791 -- Revolution and republicanism in Aquin Parish.
