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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World ed. by David P. Geggus.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
- The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave rebellions.
- Race relations.
- Political refugees.
- Political culture.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Antislavery movements.
- Political refugees--Haiti--History--19th century.
- Political refugees--United States--History--19th century.
- Slave rebellions--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements--History--19th century.
- Political culture--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Haiti.
- France.
- America.
- America--Race relations.
- America--History--19th century.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.
- Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Influence.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) : maps.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia (S.C.) : University of South Carolina, op. 2001.
- Summary:
- The effect of Saint Domingue's decolonization on the wider Atlantic world The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were gaining legitimacy in an Atlantic world dominated by Europeans and the slave trade. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World explores the multifarious influence-from economic to ideological to psychological-that a revolt on a small Caribbean island had on the continents surrounding it. Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, the opening of economic frontiers, and the formation of black and white diasporas. They show how the Haitian Revolution embittered contemporary debates about race and abolition and inspired poetry, plays, and novels. Seeking to disentangle its effects from those of the French Revolution, they demonstrate that its impact was ambiguous, complex, and contradictory.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions / David Brion Davis 3
- Chapter 2 The Limits of Example / Seymour Drescher 10
- Chapter 3 The Force of Example / Robin Blackburn 15
- Part 2 Politics
- Chapter 4 From Liberalism to Racism: German Historians, Journalists, and the Haitian Revolution from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries / Karin Schuller 23
- Chapter 5 Bryan Edwards and the Haitian Revolution / Olwyn M. Blouet 44
- Chapter 6 Puerto Rico's Creole Patriots and the Slave Trade after the Haitian Revolution / Juan R. Gonzalez Mendoza 58
- Chapter 7 American Political Culture and the French and Haitian Revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jeffersonian Republicans / Simon P. Newman 72
- Part 3 Resistance
- Chapter 8 Charleston's Rumored Slave Revolt of 1793 / Robert Alderson 93
- Chapter 9 The Promise of Revolution: Saint-Domingue and the Struggle for Autonomy in Guadeloupe, 1797-1802 / Laurent Dubois 112
- Chapter 10 "A Black French General Arrived to Conquer the Island": Images of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba's 1812 Aponte Rebellion / Matt D. Childs 135
- Chapter 11 A Fragmented Majority: Free "Of All Colors," Indians, and Slaves in Caribbean Colombia During the Haitian Revolution / Aline Helg 157
- Chapter 12 Haiti as an Image of Popular Republicanism in Caribbean Colombia: Cartagena Province (1811-1828) / Marixa Lasso 176
- Part 4 Refugees
- Chapter 13 Etrangers dans un Pays Etrange: Saint-Domingan Refugees of Color in Philadelphia / Susan Branson, Leslie Patrick 193
- Chapter 14 Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Louisiana / Paul Lachance 209
- Chapter 15 The Caradeux and Colonial Memory / David P. Geggus 231.
- Notes:
- Notes bibliogr. Index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781643361130
- 1643361139
- OCLC:
- 1138875590
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb34644 hdl
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