• Date: May 22nd, Monday, 2023, 16:30 – 18:00
• Location: Room 406, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

Presenter: Yun Kyoung Kwon (Prof., Department of Western History)

This book deals with the impact that news of the Haitian Revolution in Saint-Domingue, an opulent French colony for sugar, had on the Atlantic world; how the “Carribeans without a master” on the border of the empire and the islands took the news of Saint-Domingue’s rebellion and liberation as the point of assembly for the resistance; and how such endeavors brought cracks to the society of slavery. By examining this book’s multifaceted view of social change through the connection of micro and macro perspectives, the presenter will explore the possibility of surveying mega-Asia through microhistory.