Toussaint's clause [electronic resource] : the founding fathers and the Haitian revolution / Gordon S. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Gordon S., 1936-

Series:

Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--1789-1809.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Haiti.

Haiti--Foreign relations--United States.

Haiti.

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

Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.

Toussaint Louverture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810, the disagreement reverberated far beyond Caribbean waters and American coastal ports. War between France and Britain, the great powers of the time, raged on the seas and in Europe. America watched aghast as its trading partner Haiti, a rich hothouse of sugar plantations and French colonial profit, expl

Contents:

July 1790

St. Domingue

White cockade, red cockade

The cost of neutrality

Trouble with Britain

Trouble with France

Toussaint's clause

Creating a quarantine

The St. Domingo station

Jefferson equivocates

The Leclerc expedition

St. Domingo and Louisiana

A risky trade

The clearance act debate

The trade suspended

Embargo and neglect

Epilogue.

Notes:

"An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-315) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-43464-4

9786613434647

1-60473-697-6

OCLC:

774384393