• Week 1. Introduction: Empires, plantations and slavery
• Week 2. A revolutionary region
• Week 3. Ideas, beliefs and resistant traditions
• Week 4. Demands for equality
• Week 5. Insurrection in Saint-Domingue
• Week 6. Reading week - no lecture or seminar
• Week 7. Wider insurrections
• Week 8. Counter-revolutionary forces
• Week 9. States, nations and empires
• Week 10. Conclusions: Conch and cane