Philanthropy and race in the Haitian revolution.
2018
F1409.6-1414.2
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Title
Philanthropy and race in the Haitian revolution.
Author
Johnson, Erica R.
ISBN
9783319761442 (electronic book)
3319761447 (electronic book)
3319761439
9783319761435
3319761447 (electronic book)
3319761439
9783319761435
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[Place of publication not identified], SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU, 2018.
Language
English
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1 online resource
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F1409.6-1414.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
972.9404
Summary
This book examines the ways in which a minority of primarily white, male, French philanthropists used their social standing and talents to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the crucial period of the Haitian Revolution. They went to great lengths to advocate for the application of universal human rights through political activities, academic societies, religious charity, influence on public opinion, and fraternity in the armed services. The motives for their benevolence ran the gamut from genuine altruism to the selfish pursuit of prestige, which could, on occasion, lead to political or economic benefit from aiding blacks and people of color. This book offers a view that takes into account the efforts of all peoples who worked to end slavery and establish racial equality in Saint-Domingue and challenges simplistic notions of the Haitian Revolution, which lean too heavily on an assumed strict racial divide between black and white.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Faith in Humanity: Philanthropists in the Colonial Clergy
Freeing the Mind: Breaking the Chains of Ideological Enslavement
Revolutionary Instruction: Creating Educational Equality in the Revolutionary French Atlantic
Liberating Public Opinion: The Press and a Saint-Dominguan Public Sphere
Brothers in Arms: Racial Equality in the Saint-Dominguan Colonial Forces
Representatives of Each Race: Abolishing Inequalities in Colonial Politics
Conclusion: Atlantic Philanthropists in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue.
Faith in Humanity: Philanthropists in the Colonial Clergy
Freeing the Mind: Breaking the Chains of Ideological Enslavement
Revolutionary Instruction: Creating Educational Equality in the Revolutionary French Atlantic
Liberating Public Opinion: The Press and a Saint-Dominguan Public Sphere
Brothers in Arms: Racial Equality in the Saint-Dominguan Colonial Forces
Representatives of Each Race: Abolishing Inequalities in Colonial Politics
Conclusion: Atlantic Philanthropists in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue.