Siblings of soil : Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions / Charlton W. Yingling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yingling, Charlton Wesley, author.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominican Republic--Relations--Haiti--History.

Dominican Republic.

Haiti--Relations--Dominican Republic--History.

Haiti.

Hispaniola--Ethnic relations--Political aspects--History.

Hispaniola.

Dominican Republic--Politics and government.

Haiti--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 322 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2022]

Summary:

After revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths about this era that contributed to anti-Haitianism. Despite the island's long-simmering tensions, Dominicans and Haitians once unified Hispaniola. Based on research from over two dozen archives in multiple countries, Siblings of Soil presents the overlooked history of their shared imperial endings and national beginnings from the 1780s to 1822. Haitian revolutionaries both inspired and aided Dominican antislavery and anti-imperial movements. Ultimately, Santo Domingo's independence from Spain came in 1822 through unification with Haiti, as Dominicans embraced citizenship and emancipation. Their collaboration resulted in one of the most unique and inclusive forms of independence in the Americas. Elite reactions to this era formed anti-Haitian narratives. Racial ideas permeated the revolution, Vodou, Catholicism, secularism, and even Deism. Some Dominicans reinforced Hispanic and Catholic traditions and cast Haitians as violent heretics who had invaded Dominican society, undermining the innovative, multicultural state. Two centuries later, distortions of their shared past of kinship have enabled generations of anti-Haitian policies, assumptions of irreconcilable differences, and human rights abuses. -- Provided by publisher.

"The book documents and discusses largely forgotten collaborations by the Dominican and Haitian majorities of color to achieve independence together, an event that elite Dominicans later maligned and misconstrued to justify anti-Haitian nationalism and policies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction : The Entire Island Has One Family

Chapter 1 : Race and Place in Eighteenth-Century Hispaniola

Chapter 2 : Following a Revolutionary Fuse, 1789-1791

Chapter 3 : Belief, Blasphemy, and the Black Auxiliaries, 1792-1794

Chapter 4: Many Enemies Within, 1795-1798

Chapter 5 : French Failures, 1799-1807

Chapter 6 : Cross-Island Collaboration and Conspiracies, 1808-1818

Chapter 7 : The "Spanish Part of Haiti" and Unification, 1819-1822

Epilogue : Becoming Dominican in Haiti

Archives Consulted

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-301) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 8, 2023)

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781477326114

9781477326107

1477326103

OCLC:

1341443488