@article{939968,
      recid = {939968},
      author = {Johnson, Erica R.},
      title = {Philanthropy and race in the Haitian revolution.},
      publisher = {SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU,},
      address = {[Place of publication not identified],},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/939968},
}