Confronting Black Jacobins : the United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the origins of the Dominican Republic / by Gerald Horne.
2015
E183.8.H2 H67 2015eb
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Confronting Black Jacobins : the United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the origins of the Dominican Republic / by Gerald Horne.
Author
Horne, Gerald, author.
ISBN
9781583675656 (electronic book)
1583675655 (electronic book)
9781583675625
1583675620
9781583675632
1583675639
1583675655 (electronic book)
9781583675625
1583675620
9781583675632
1583675639
Published
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
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1 online resource (423 pages)
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E183.8.H2 H67 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.7307294
Summary
"The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain, and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti's mainland neighbor, the United States. Inspiring the enslaved and partisans of emancipation while striking terror throughout the Southern slaveocracy, it propelled the fledgling nation one step closer to civil war. Gerald Horne's pathbreaking new work explores the complex and often fraught relationship between the United States and the island of Hispaniola. Giving particular attention to the responses of African Americans, Horne surveys the reaction in the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti, the splitting of the island in 1844, which led to the formation of the Dominican Republic, and the failed attempt by the United States to annex both in the 1870s. Drawing upon a rich collection of archival and other primary source materials, Horne deftly weaves together a disparate array of voices--world leaders and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom fighters he terms Black Jacobins. Horne at once illuminates the tangled conflicts of the colonial powers, the commercial interests and imperial ambitions of U.S. elites, and the brutality and tenacity of the American slaveholding class, while never losing sight of the freedom struggles of Africans both on the island and on the mainland, which sought the fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of 18th century republicanism"--Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Confronting the rise of Black Jacobins, 1791-1793
Confronting Black Jacobins on the march, 1793-1797
Confronting the surge of Black Jacobins, 1797-1803
Confronting the triumph of Black Jacobins, 1804-1819
Hemispheric Africans and Black Jacobins, 1820-1829
U.S. Negroes and Black Jacobins, 1830-1839
Black Jacobins weakened, 1840-1849
Black Jacobins under siege, 1850-1859
The U.S. Civil War, the Spanish takeover of the Dominican Republic, and U.S. Negro emigrants in Haiti, 1860-1863
Haiti to be annexed reenslaved? 1863-1870
Annex Hispaniola and deport U.S. Negroes there? 1870-1871.
Confronting Black Jacobins on the march, 1793-1797
Confronting the surge of Black Jacobins, 1797-1803
Confronting the triumph of Black Jacobins, 1804-1819
Hemispheric Africans and Black Jacobins, 1820-1829
U.S. Negroes and Black Jacobins, 1830-1839
Black Jacobins weakened, 1840-1849
Black Jacobins under siege, 1850-1859
The U.S. Civil War, the Spanish takeover of the Dominican Republic, and U.S. Negro emigrants in Haiti, 1860-1863
Haiti to be annexed reenslaved? 1863-1870
Annex Hispaniola and deport U.S. Negroes there? 1870-1871.