African Americans and the Haitian revolution : selected essays and historical documents / edited by Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Maurice, 1950-

Bacon, Jacqueline, 1965-

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Attitudes--History--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Black nationalism--United States--History--19th century.

Black nationalism.

Slave rebellions.

History.

Historiography.

African Americans--Attitudes.

African Americans--Race identity.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Influence.

Haiti.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Historiography.

Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Sources.

Slave rebellions--Haiti.

United States.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

vii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Summary:

The importance of the Haitian Revolution as a defining event for African Americans has long been recognized by scholars. In particular, the Haitian Revolution has been for African Americans of different eras a vehicle through which collective memory and identity are created and transformed – an event that has inspired and influenced black nationalism, abolitionism, black socialist and revolutionary thought, and Pan Africanism.

Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, but also showcases the primary texts written by African Americans about the Haitian Revolution, Rather than being about the revolution itself, this collection attempts to show how the events in Haiti served to galvanize African Americans to think about themselves and to act in accordance with their beliefs, and contributes to the study of African Americans in the wider Atlantic World.

Contents:

Part I Essays 7

1 Fever and Fret: The Haitian Revolution and African American Responses / Maurice Jackson, Jacqueline Bacon 9

2 Afro-American Sailors and The International Communication Network: The Case of Newport Bowers / Julius S. Scott 25

3 The Roots of Early Black Nationalism: Northern African Americans' Invocations of Haiti in the Early Nineteenth Century / Sara C. Fanning 39

4 "The Black Republic": The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Northern Black Political Consciousness, 1816-1862 / Leslie M. Alexander 57

5 "A Revolution Unexampled in the History of Man": The Haitian Revolution in Freedom's Journal, 1827-1829 / Jacqueline Bacon 81

6 Antebellum African Americans, Public Commemoration, and the Haitian Revolution: A Problem of Historical Mythmaking / Mitch Kachun 93

7 American Toussaints: Symbol, Subversion, and the Black Atlantic Tradition in the American Civil War / Matthew J. Clavin 107

8 "The Spirit of Human Brotherhood," "The Sisterhood of Nations," and "Perfect Manhood"; Frederick Douglass and the Rhetorical Significance of the Haitian Revolution / Glen McClish 123

9 No Man Could Hinder Him: Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the History and Culture of the African American People / Mairice Jackson 141

Part II Historical Documents 165

"The Condition and Prospects of Hayti" (1826) / John Browne Russwurm 167

The Haitian Revolution in Freedom's Journal, the First African American Newspaper: 1827-1828 169

From A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions; With a Sketch of the Character of Toussaint L'Ouverture. Delivered at the Stuyvesant Institute, (For the Benefit of the Colored Orphan Asylum,) February 26, 1841 / James McCune Smith 177

From St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and its Patriots. A Lecture, Delivered before the Metropolitan Athenaeum, London, May 16, and at St- Thomas' Church, Philadelphia, December 20, 1854 / William Wells Brown 183

From A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race for Self-Government, and Civilized Progress, as Demonstrated by Historical Events of the Haytian Revolution; and the Subsequent Acts of that People Since Their National Independence (1857) / James Theodore Holly 189

The Haitian Revolution in Resolutions Adopted by African American State and Regional Conventions (1858, 1859, 1865) 194

From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising (1887) / William J. Simmons 195

From Lecture on Haiti. The Haitian Pavilion Dedication Ceremonies Delivered at the World's Fair, in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893 / Frederick Douglass 202

"The Same" (1932) / Langston Hughes 212

From A History of Pan-African Revolt (1938 [1969]) / C.L.R. James 214

"Mister Toussan" (1941) / Ralph Ellison 223

"Ho Chi Minh is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China" (1954) / Paul Robeson 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780415803755

0415803756

9780415803762

0415803764

OCLC:

299711315

Publisher Number:

99935705459