The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States : Histories, Textualities, Geographies / Michael Drexler, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock, Editor.

Drexler, Michael, Editor.

Series:

Early American studies.

Early American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American History.

American Studies.

Caribbean Studies.

Latin American Studies.

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

Haiti.

Haiti--Foreign relations--United States.

Local Subjects:

American History.

American Studies.

Caribbean Studies.

Latin American Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haitian independence on January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second independent republic, after the United States, in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution was the first successful antislavery and anticolonial revolution in the western hemisphere. The histories of Haiti and the early United States were intimately linked in terms of politics, economics, and geography, but unlike Haiti, the United States would remain a slaveholding republic until 1865. While the Haitian Revolution was a beacon for African Americans and abolitionists in the United States, it was a terrifying specter for proslavery forces there, and its effects were profound. In the wake of Haiti's liberation, the United States saw reconfigurations of its geography, literature, politics, and racial and economic structures.The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States explores the relationship between the dramatic events of the Haitian Revolution and the development of the early United States. The first section, "Histories," addresses understandings of the Haitian Revolution in the developing public sphere of the early United States, from theories of state sovereignty to events in the street; from the economic interests of U.S. merchants to disputes in the chambers of diplomats; and from the flow of rumor and second-hand news of refugees to the informal communication networks of the enslaved. The second section, "Geographies," explores the seismic shifts in the ways the physical territories of the two nations and the connections between them were imagined, described, inhabited, and policed as a result of the revolution. The final section, "Textualities," explores the wide-ranging consequences that reading and writing about slavery, rebellion, emancipation, and Haiti in particular had on literary culture in both the United States and Haiti.With essays from leading and emerging scholars of Haitian and U.S. history, literature, and cultural studies, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States traces the rich terrain of Haitian-U.S. culture and history in the long nineteenth century.Contributors: Anthony Bogues, Marlene Daut, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, Laurent Dubois, James Alexander Dun, Duncan Faherty, Carolyn Fick, David Geggus, Kieran Murphy, Colleen O'Brien, Peter P. Reed, Siân Silyn Roberts, Cristobal Silva, Ed White, Ivy Wilson, Gretchen Woertendyke, Edlie Wong.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Revolutionary St. Domingue and the Emerging Atlantic: Paradigms of Sovereignty

Chapter 2. (Mis)reading the Revolution

Chapter 3. “The Mischief That Awaits Us”

Chapter 4. “Entirely Different from Any Likeness I Ever Saw”

Chapter 5. Frederick Douglass, Anténor Firmin, and the Making of U.S.- Haitian Relations

Chapter 6. The Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolution

Chapter 7. Republic of Medicine

Chapter 8. The Occult Atlantic

Chapter 9. In the Shadow of Haiti

Chapter 10. The Haytian Papers and Black Labor Ideology in the Antebellum United States

Chapter 11. The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature

Chapter 12. Haiti and the New- World Novel

Chapter 13. Dispossession and Cosmopolitan Community in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History

Chapter 14. Theatrical Rebels and Refugees

Chapter 15. The “Alpha and Omega” of Haitian Literature

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780812292862

0812292863

OCLC:

947084163