"In a most welcome addition to the classical historiography focused on the Haitian Revolution, Malick Ghachem surveys the eighteenth century, showing how France stifled local interests by organizing a singularly violent military state. He reviews the Indies Company's demise, the initial revolt of Cap-Français subordinate urbanites and its cooptation by the large planters, the Jesuits' setbacks, and the early resistance of the maroons."-- Jean Casimir, author of The Haitians: A Decolonial History " The Company and the Colony is as deeply thought-provoking and original as anything that Malick Ghachem writes. Technical matters of high finance are brought into the same analytical lens as colonial resistance from below, and nothing looks quite the same thereafter--neither Saint-Domingue's sugar revolution, nor the so-called Mississippi Bubble, which was so much more than a French metropolitan, or purely economic, story."-- Catherine Desbarats, McGill University "The book makes a significant scholarly contribution. The uprisings in Saint-Domingue during the 1720s have attracted relatively little attention over the years, especially compared to the world-shattering events that swept the colony during the 1790s. Ghachem makes use of a vast archive of primary documents as well as sharp-eyed reconsiderations of secondary sources to construct both his narrative and his argument. The book serves as a fine reminder to consider the many colonial antecedents of revolutionary experience.

"-- Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University " The Colony and the Company is a multilayered and deeply compelling history rooted in a careful analysis of both familiar and unfamiliar primary sources. Elegantly written and insightful."-- Pernille Røge, University of Pittsburgh "A stunning reappraisal of prerevolutionary Saint-Domingue that compels us to reconsider the role of high finance and stock market speculation in helping to produce the Haitian revolution, with lingering effects on that nation's economic trajectory and political woes. In the hands of a scholar of Malick Ghachem's caliber, this story constantly ebbs and flows as he flips the script to bring to light the agency of a fresh cast of characters: free and enslaved, of African and European descent, women alongside men--people long dismissed as irrelevant to studies of corporations and finance yet shown here to be vital players in their own right. A revelatory tour de force of Atlantic history."-- Sophie White, author of Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana.