
Captives from Africa introduced in the French colony of Saint-Domingue resisted enslavement and transformed the richest colony of the 18th century into an independent country in 1804. “The way out of slavery: freedom as joy” invites students into a conversation where the accent is on the agency of the enslaved who modifed the conditions of living imposed upon them and created a new nation, enjoying every step of their victory and their creation of a new life.