The Haitian Declaration of Independence : creation, context, and legacy / edited by Julia Gaffield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaffield, Julia, editor.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty--Political aspects.

History.

Liberty.

Proclamations.

Autonomy and independence movements.

Haiti--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Haiti.

Proclamations--Haiti--History and criticism.

Liberty--Political aspects--Haiti--History--19th century.

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806.

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques.

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

Haiti--History--1804-1844.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction : the Haitian Declaration of Independence in an Atlantic context / David Armitage and Julia Gaffield

Part 1. Writing the Declaration

Haiti's Declaration of Independence / David Geggus

"Victims of our own credulity and indulgence" : the life of Louis Félix Boisrond-Tonnerre / John Garrigus

The debate surrounding the printing of the Haitian Declaration of Independence : a review of the literature / Patrick Tardieu

Living by metaphor in the Haitian Declaration of Independence : tigers and cognitive theory / Deborah Jenson

Part 2. Haitian independence and the Atlantic

Law, Atlantic revolutionary exceptionalism, and the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Malick W. Ghachem

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Norbert Thoret, and the violent aftermath of the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Jeremy D. Popkin

Did Dessalines' plan to export the Haitian Revolution? / Philippe Girard

Part 3. The legacy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence

"Outrages on the laws of nations" : American merchants and diplomacy after the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Julia Gaffield

The sovereign people of Haiti during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jean Casimir

Thinking Haitian independence in Haitian Vodou / Laurent Dubois

Revolutionary commemorations : Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haitian Independence Day, 1804-1904 / Erin Zavitz

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0813937876

9780813937878

OCLC:

907661631

Publisher Number:

99965850053